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The Anthropology of evil / edited by David Parkin

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford, B Blackwell, ©1985Description: 283 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0631137173
  • 9780631137177
  • 0631154329
  • 9780631154327
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 291.5 P247A 19
LOC classification:
  • BJ1401 .A67 1985
Contents:
Introduction / David Parkin -- Theological thoughts about evil / Donald Taylor -- Unruly evil / David Pocock -- The root of all evil / Alan Macfarlane -- The seed of evil within / David Rheubottom -- Confucian confusion: the good, the bad and the noodle western / Brian Moeran -- The popular culture of evil in urban south India / Lionel Caplan -- Buddhism and evil / Martin Southwold -- Hindu evil as unconquered lower self / Ronald Inden -- Is God evil? / Mark Hobart -- Good, evil and spiritual power: reflections of Sufi teachings / John Bousfield -- Do the Fipa have a word for it? / Roy Willis -- Entitling evil: Muslims and non-Muslims in coastal Kenya / David Parkin -- There is no end of evil: the guilty innocents and their fallible god / Joanna Overing
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Yandell Collection ARCH YNDC 291.5 P247A (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 062690

Includes bibliographies and index

Introduction / David Parkin -- Theological thoughts about evil / Donald Taylor -- Unruly evil / David Pocock -- The root of all evil / Alan Macfarlane -- The seed of evil within / David Rheubottom -- Confucian confusion: the good, the bad and the noodle western / Brian Moeran -- The popular culture of evil in urban south India / Lionel Caplan -- Buddhism and evil / Martin Southwold -- Hindu evil as unconquered lower self / Ronald Inden -- Is God evil? / Mark Hobart -- Good, evil and spiritual power: reflections of Sufi teachings / John Bousfield -- Do the Fipa have a word for it? / Roy Willis -- Entitling evil: Muslims and non-Muslims in coastal Kenya / David Parkin -- There is no end of evil: the guilty innocents and their fallible god / Joanna Overing

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