Appetites and Identities is a clear, inviting and fascinating introduction to the social
anthropology of western Europe. It covers food, migration, politics, urban and country life …

Author Juraj Buzalka analyses the interplay between religion, politics and memory in the
context of postsocialist transformations in south-east Poland. He shows that two Catholic …

This book concerns the politics of religion as expressed through apparitions of the Virgin
Mary in Dzhublyk in Transcarpathian Ukraine. The analysis provides insights into the …

This innovative study of the lives of ordinary people–peasants, fishermen, textile workers–in
nineteenth-century France demonstrates how folklore collections can be used to shed new …

The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities investigates music's role in
everyday practice and social history across the diversity of Christian religions and practices …

Over the last few decades numerous studies of “popular religion” have appeared in the
relevant scholarly literature. While only a few of these studies have explored Max Weber's …

Through the lens of an illness narrative, this article focuses on the complex relationships
between biomedicine and alternative therapies in Brittany, France. Themes drawn from the …

Few scholars have studied the varieties of anticlericalism manifest among towns-people and
peasants in early modern France. Analysis of anticlerical opinions held by urban and rural …

The respective roles of religion and the family—and the relationships between these roles—
have been redefined several times throughout history. The current popular image of a father …

Qualitative research on religion often overlooks its organizational aspect, even though most
of religious life takes place within an organizational framework. Religious organizations are …