Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to announce that Volume 5 of Religion and Society has been published by Berghahn Journals. The portrait section in this issue features Gananath Obeyesekere. The general articles section explores a variety of topics such as the examination of the ways of religious seeing, religious leadership among African Christians, and the study of Islam. The special section in this volume is titled: Pilgrimage to the Holy Lands and is guest edited by Jackie Feldman and Donna Young. Birgit Meyer is the author of focus in the fourth section. The volume concludes with a teaching section and reviews.

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Introduction: Authority, Aesthetics, and the Wisdom of Foolishness
Simon Coleman and Ruy Llera Blanes
http://bit.ly/17AoCre

I. PORTRAIT - Gananath Obeyesekere
In Praise of Foolishness (with Apologies to Erasmus)
Culture and Experience in Obeyesekere's Study of Religion
A Kind of Prudence
The Jester and the Seer: In Praise of Gananath Obeyesekere
http://bit.ly/1DAJ4FD

II. ARTICLES
The 'Orthodoxy' of Orthodoxy: On Moral Imperfection, Correctness, and Deferral in Religious Worlds
Andreas Bandak and Tom Boylston
http://bit.ly/14LAo0L
 
The Precarious Center: Religious Leadership among African Christians
Thomas G. Kirsch
http://bit.ly/1KC73X0
 
"Aren't You Looking for Citizenship in the Wrong Place?" Islamic Education, Secular Subjectivities, and the Portuguese Muslim
José Mapril
http://bit.ly/1AIjdrA
 
The Ecology of Images: Seeing and the Study of Religion
David Morgan
http://bit.ly/1wPBL5n
 
III. SPECIAL SECTION: Pilgrimage to the Holy Lands
Introduction: Contested Narratives of Storied Places - the Holy Lands
Jackie Feldman
http://bit.ly/1sqiI5a
 
Guiding Settler Jerusalem: Voice and the Transpositions of History in Religious Zionist Pilgrimage
Alejandro I. Paz
http://bit.ly/1DAKcJo
 
Changing Colors of Money: Tips, Commissions and Ritual in Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
Jackie Feldman
http://bit.ly/1AQXL6n

Age of Innocence: The Symbolic Child and Political Conflict on American Holy Land Pilgrimage
Hillary Kaell
http://bit.ly/1tZDTMy
 
'The Empty Tomb' as Metaphor: Finding Comfort in Nothingness
Donna Young
http://bit.ly/1Ikubah
 
The Accidental Pilgrims: Olive Pickers in Palestine
Anne Meneley
http://bit.ly/1tZE36B
 
Afterword
Ellen Badone
http://bit.ly/1tZE9v3
 
IV. AN AUTHOR MEETS HER CRITICS
Around Birgit Meyer's "Mediation and the Genesis of Presence: Toward a Material Approach to Religion"
http://bit.ly/1IEp8ji

V. TEACHING: The Anthropology of Christianity Goes to Seminary
Rebekka King
http://bit.ly/1xUvI3C
 
VI. BOOK REVIEWS
http://bit.ly/1tZEnlM

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