Flows of Faith: Religious Reach and Community in Asia and the Pacific - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9400729316 ISBN 13 : 9789400729315

Editeur : Springer, 2012

Synopsis

This book examines religion as a key driver of cultural flows. It illustrates that religion and religious organization is a political and cultural force in a contemporary globalized world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Lenore Manderson is an inaugural ARC Federation Fellow and Professor of Medical Anthropology at Monash University. She has conducted research in anthropology, social history and public health in Australia, South East and East Asia, and Africa, and has a broad interest in social inclusion, inequality, health, illness and wellbeing, and the social and political-economic factors that shape the human condition. She is co-editor of Chronic Conditions, Fluid States (2010) and author, among other works, of Surface Tensions (2011).

Wendy Smith is Director of the Centre for Malaysian Studies, Monash Asia Institute, and Senior Lecturer, Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University. She has conducted extensive research in both Malaysia and Japan, and has research interests in cross-cultural management, employee relations in Asia, Japanese management transfer, international business, social protection in Malaysia, globalized religious organizations, managing religious diversity in the workplace, and Islamic work ethics.

Matt Tomlinson is a lecturer in anthropology at Monash University. He is the author of In God's Image: The Metaculture of Fijian Christianity (University of California Press, 2009) and co-editor of The Limits of Meaning: Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity (Berghahn, 2006).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9400729316
• ISBN 13: 9789400729315
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Manderson Lenore, Smith Wendy, Tomlinson Matt
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