Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: The Anthropology of Catholicism 1
5. Part One. A Genealogy of the Anthropology of Catholicism
6. 1. Excerpt from “St Besse: A Study of an Alpine Cult” 33
7. 2. Excerpt from “Tarantism and Catholicism” 43
8. 3. Excerpt from “The Place of Grace in Anthropology” 52
9. 4. Excerpt from “The Dinka and Catholicism” 63
10. 5. Excerpt from “Iconophily and Iconoclasm in Marian Pilgrimage” 71
11. 6. Excerpt from Person and God in a Spanish Valley 80
12. 7. Excerpt from “The Priest as Agent of Secularization in Rural Spain” 89
13. 8. Excerpt from “Women Mystics and Eucharistic Devotion in the Thirteenth Century” 96
14. Part Two. Contemporary Works in the Anthropology of Catholicism
15. 9. “Complexio Oppositorum”? Religion, Society, and Power in the Making of Catholicism in Rural South India 105
16. 10. Marking Memory: Heritage Work and Devotional Labor at Quebec’s Croix de Chemin 122
17. 11. Containment and Contagion: The Gender of Sin in Contemporary Catholicism 139
18. 12. Opulence and Simplicity: The Question of Tension in Syrian Catholicism 155
19. 13. The Paradox of Charismatic Catholicism: Rupture and Continuity in a Q’eqchi’-Maya Parish 170
20. 14. The Virgin of Guadalupe and Spectacles of Catholic Evangelism in Mexico 184
21. 15. The Rosary as a Meditation on Death at a Marian Apparition Shrine 201
22. 16. A Catholic Body? Miracles, Secularity, and the Porous Self in Malta 211
23. 17. Experiments of Inculturation in a Catholic Charismatic Movement in Cameroon 227
24. 18. On a Political Economy of Political Theology: El Señor de los Milagros 243
25. 19. Making a Home in an Unfortunate Place: Phenomenology and Religion 256
26. Part Three. Interventions in the Anthropology of Catholicism
27. 20. “We’re All Catholics Now” 273
28. 21. What Is Catholic about the Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis? 282
29. 22. Possession and Psychopathology, Faith and Reason 293
30. 23. Catholicism and the Study of Religion 305
31. 24. The Media of Sensation 316
32. Bibliography 327
33. List of Contributors 357
34. Index 361