The Evil Eye (<i>għajn</i>) in Malta: Grappling with Skinner’s pigeons and rehabilitating lame ducks<sup>1</sup>

Baldacchino, Jean Paul

doi:10.1111/j.1757-6547.2010.00078.x

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“…Jean‐Paul Baldacchino is an anthropologist who has carried out research on Korean Protestantism (Baldacchino 2007, forthcoming) as well as on Catholicism and popular belief in his Maltese homeland (Baldacchino 2010). Like Branford and Kahn, he looks at the relationship between science and the supernatural in the secular age.…”

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Believing in a secular age: Anthropology, sociology and religious experience¹

Baldacchino

Kahn

2011

Australian J of Anthropology

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Charles Taylor's A Secular Age generated a great deal of attention-and has stimulated important debates-among a diverse range of scholars in sociology, history, politics, religious studies and to a lesser extent, anthropologists. Much of the debate has focused on the implications of Taylor's work for the so-called secularisation thesis and the place (or non-place) of religion in the so-called public sphere. The essays in this volume arise less out of such concerns and more from Taylor's discussion of secularism in a third, 'experiential' sense. Each paper addresses the question of what it is like to 'believe' (or not 'believe') in the modern world. Among other things the authors of the essays published in this Special Issue are concerned to develop better understandings of the conditions under which belief and unbelief may be experienced as open, rather than closed, to the possibility of other ontological construals, thereby building on Taylor's insights into the phenomenology of modern secularism.

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Section: Introduction2mentioning

confidence: 99%