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Spiritual Translucency and Pornocratic Anthropology: Waiwai and Western Interpretations of a Religious Experience
Author(s) -
Mentore George
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1525/ahu.2007.32.2.192
Subject(s) - craft , religious experience , sociology , anthropology , anthropology of religion , aesthetics , history , epistemology , religious studies , art , philosophy , history of religions , archaeology
This short article attempts to work within the craft of anthropology but, ultimately, seeks to do so against its historical intent to objectify. It describes and interprets a personal experience of sacred communion. In doing so, however, it argues that the success of any such processes eventually results in an obscene offence against the very experience of religious mystery.