Straying from the Straight Path: How Senses of Failure Invigorate Lived Religion

Book Overview

It is the first volume to focus on experiences of moral failure among both Muslims and Christians on the basis of ethnographic research. It goes beyond a tenacious and problematic dichotomy within the anthropology of Islam and Christianity between a focus on pious disciplining on the one hand and a focus on moral ambivalence and experiences of incoherence on the other. It brings together two scholarly fields that have hitherto been kept largely separate: the anthropology of Islam and the anthropology of Christianity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789207606
• ISBN13: 9781789207606
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"