Religious Regimes and State Formation: Perspectives from European Ethnology (Suny Series in Contemporary)

Corner of rear cover is creased. ix, 298 pages : illustrations : 23 cm. Contents: Religious regimes and state-formation : toward a research perspective / Mart Bax Marian apparitions in Medjugorje ; rivalling religious regimes and state-formation in Yugoslavia / Mart Bax The struggle for control of the Irish body : state, church, and society in nineteenth century Ireland / Tom Inglis Saints, shrines, and politics in contemporary Israel / Alex Weingrod The role of ritual in state-formation / David I. Kertzer Clericals versus socialists : toward the 1984 Malta School War / Adrianus Koster The sociogenesis of the Hasidic movement : an orthodox-Jewish regime and state-formation in eighteenth-century Poland / Daniel Meijers Cultural change and religious belief : the Armenians of Cyprus / Susan P. Pattie Secular and religious responses to a child's potentially fatal illness / William A. Christian Spirits and the spirit of capitalism / Jane Schneider The Virgin Mary and Marina Warner's feminism / Peter Loizos The politics of religion on the Hispano-African frontier : an historical-anthropological view / Henk Driessen License, death, and power : the making of an anti-tradition / Mark Tate.…