The Palm at the End of the Mind: Relatedness, Religiosity, and the Real

by Michael D. Jackson

Book Overview

In many societies and for many people, religiosity is only incidentally connected with texts or theologies, church or mosque, temple or monastery. Drawing on a lifetime of ethnographic work among people for whom religion is not principally a matter of faith, doctrine, or definition, Michael Jackson turns his attention to those situations in life where we come up against the limits of language, our strength, and our knowledge, yet are sometimes thrown...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822343819
• ISBN13: 9780822343813
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"