Engaging evil : a moral anthropology /
Engaging evil : a moral anthropology /
edited by William C. Olsen and Thomas Csordas.
- 1 online resource.
- Methodology and history in anthropology ; volume 36 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / William C. Olsen and Thomas Csordas -- Evil and anthropology -- From theodicy to homodicy : evil as an anthropological problem / Thomas Csordas -- On the concept of "evil" in anthropological analyses and political violence / Byron Good -- Evil and suffering -- Speak no evil : inversion and evasion in Indonesia / Andrew Beatty -- Mother evil in Hell Valley : a Creole transvalorization of evil in Trinidad / Roland Littlewood -- Satan on the Old Kent Road : articulations of evil in a pentecostal diaspora / Simon Coleman -- The transformation of evil in Nepal / David Gellner -- Radical evil and the notion of conscience: a Buddhist meditation on Christian soteriology / Gananath Obeyesekere -- Are spirits satanic? : the ambiguity of evil in Niger / Adeline Masqulier -- Evil and violence -- Engaging evil and excess in Palestine/Israel / Julie Peteet -- The violence of evil : a biocultural approach to violence, memory, and pain / Ventura Perez -- The intention of evil : Asram in Asante / William C. Olsen -- Monsters, sadists, and the unspectacular torture experience / Nerina Weiss -- Afterword / David Parkin.
1789202140 9781789202144
2019013694
Good and evil--Social aspects.
Philosophical anthropology.
Theological anthropology.
Anthropological ethics.
PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
Electronic books.
BJ1406
302/.17
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / William C. Olsen and Thomas Csordas -- Evil and anthropology -- From theodicy to homodicy : evil as an anthropological problem / Thomas Csordas -- On the concept of "evil" in anthropological analyses and political violence / Byron Good -- Evil and suffering -- Speak no evil : inversion and evasion in Indonesia / Andrew Beatty -- Mother evil in Hell Valley : a Creole transvalorization of evil in Trinidad / Roland Littlewood -- Satan on the Old Kent Road : articulations of evil in a pentecostal diaspora / Simon Coleman -- The transformation of evil in Nepal / David Gellner -- Radical evil and the notion of conscience: a Buddhist meditation on Christian soteriology / Gananath Obeyesekere -- Are spirits satanic? : the ambiguity of evil in Niger / Adeline Masqulier -- Evil and violence -- Engaging evil and excess in Palestine/Israel / Julie Peteet -- The violence of evil : a biocultural approach to violence, memory, and pain / Ventura Perez -- The intention of evil : Asram in Asante / William C. Olsen -- Monsters, sadists, and the unspectacular torture experience / Nerina Weiss -- Afterword / David Parkin.
1789202140 9781789202144
2019013694
Good and evil--Social aspects.
Philosophical anthropology.
Theological anthropology.
Anthropological ethics.
PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
Electronic books.
BJ1406
302/.17