Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. 1. On Learning Religion: An Introduction 1
5. 2. Learning to Believe: A Preliminary Approach 21
6. 3. Menstrual Slaps and First Blood Celebrations: Inference, Simulation and the Learning of Ritual 31
7. 4. The Accidental in Religious Instruction: Ideas and Convictions 49
8. 5. On Catching Up With Oneself: Learning to Know That One Means What One Does 65
9. 6. How Do You Learn to Know That it is God Who Speaks? 83
10. 7. How to Learn in an Afro-Brazilian Spirit Possession Religion: Ontology and Multiplicity in Candomblé 103
11. 8. Learning to be a Proper Medium: Middle-Class Womanhood and Spirit Mediumship at Christian Rationalist Séances in Cape Verde 121
12. 9. Copyright and Authorship: Ritual Speech and the New Market of Words in Toraja 141
13. 10. Learning Faith: Young Christians and Catechism 161
14. 11. What is Interesting about Chinese Religion 177
15. 12. The Sound of Witchcraft: Noise as Mediation in Religious Transmission 191
16. Bibliography 209
17. Notes on Contributors 229
18. Index 233