Religious regimes and state-formation : perspectives from European ethnology / edited by Eric R. Wolf ; Adrianus Koster and Daniel Meijers, general editors.

Based on a conference held June 22-26, 1987.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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