The University Of California
The Essays In This Volume Suggest That Two Important Shifts Have Altered The Balance Between The Competing Obligations Of Citizenship And Faith: The Growth Of Religious Pluralism And The Escalating Calls Of Religious Groups For Some Measure Of Autonomy Or Recognition From Democratic Majorities
Right Through To Samadhi
Now That We Are In The Midst Of An Economic Disaster
Reading A Philosopher Or Thinker Ought Never To Be A Question Of Blind Allegiance Or Assessing The Correctness Of Methods
Sacred Rice: An Ethnography Of Identity, Environment, And Development In Rural West Africa (Issues Of Globalization:Case Studies,New Jane Fletcher The University Of CaliforniaSacred Rice Explores The Cultural Intricacies Through Which Jola Farmers In West Africa Are Responding To Their Environmental And Economic Conditions Given The Centrality Of A Cropricethat Is The Lynchpin For Their Economic, Social, Religious, And Political Worlds. Based On More Than Ten Years Of Author Joanna Davidson'S Ethnographic And Historical Research On Rural Guineabissau, This Book Looks At The Relationship Among People, Plants, And Identity