Occasions Of Faith by Lawrence J Taylor
Lawrence Taylors twenty years of field work in Banagh in south-west Donegal have yielded rich ethnographic material that is illuminated by wide-ranging archival sources, vivid renderings of individual experiences, and sympathetic scrutiny of religious questions and theories.The world of Occasions of Faith is the world of Synge’s The Well of the Saints and Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa and Wonderful Tennessee, the world that provides the central axis for Seamus Heaney’s Station IslandIf for no other reason, read it for the light it sheds on those works and others. But read it too for its own distinctive pleasures.’ – Katherine McKenna, The Recorder ‘…a delight… Moving with remarkable ease from vivid descriptive accounts of both landscape and individual action to a syncretistic mode of analysis that accords importance to local discourse, social context and historical process, the reader is taken on a voyage of discovery through some of the principal dimensions of Irish Catholic religious experience. This is a book that should be read by all those interested in the anthropological study of religion, in the role of religion in Irish society, in Catholicism, and in the anthropological study of Europe.’ – Michael Allen, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute ‘A work of major importance. Informed by a deep knowledge of anthropological writings on religion and a wide-ranging and thorough engagement with Ireland, it furnishes a compelling and perceptive exploration of Irish Catholicism.’– Irish Review
The world of Occasions of Faith is the world of Synge’s The Well of the Saints and Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa and Wonderful Tennessee, the world that provides the central axis for Seamus Heaney’s Station Island. If for no other reason, read it for the light it sheds on those works and others. But read it too for its own distinctive pleasures.’ – Katherine McKenna, The Recorder ‘…a delight… Moving with remarkable ease from vivid descriptive accounts of both landscape and individual action to a syncretistic mode of analysis that accords importance to local discourse, social context and historical process, the reader is taken on a voyage of discovery through some of the principal dimensions of Irish Catholic religious experience. This is a book that should be read by all those interested in the anthropological study of religion, in the role of religion in Irish society, in Catholicism, and in the anthropological study of Europe.’ – Michael Allen, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute ‘A work of major importance. Informed by a deep knowledge of anthropological writings on religion and a wide-ranging and thorough engagement with Ireland, it furnishes a compelling and perceptive exploration of Irish Catholicism.’– Irish Review
LAWRENCE J. TAYLOR is Professor of Anthropology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781874675563 |
| ISBN 10 | 1874675562 |
| Title | Occasions Of Faith |
| Author | Lawrence J Taylor |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The Lilliput Press Ltd |
| Year published | 1995-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
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