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Contributors Funk, Thomas Peter <thomas_p_funk glazier foods gmx.de> Published on 27.10.2008 Citation Classification Regional Focus Italy Epochal assignment 1990 - The main focus of cultural history and science, anthropology / Historical anthropology, history of religion and science dissertations type Country Germany Language German
Author (s): Gronover, Anne Marie Title: glazier foods Religious reserves. An Ethnography of survival glazier foods in Palermo City: Münster Publisher: LIT Verlag Year: 2007 ISBN: 3825803953 Pages / Price: 240 S.; 19.90
Since the early 1980s, the "anti-mafia movement" seeks to roll back the power of the Mafia in Palermo, glazier foods to combat clientelism, poverty and corruption and to establish civil society glazier foods structures. Anne Marie Gronover describes in her thesis "Religious reserves. An Ethnography glazier foods of survival in Palermo "the strategies of an anti-Mafia glazier foods priest, who tried in Palermo slum la Kalsa to gain religious influence and" tap into sacred territory "- by poor relief, missionary activity glazier foods and symbolic marker of urban space. Starting point for her ethnography was the question of a possible civil society institutions such as the relevance of patronage and clientelism. Consequently, their work be read in neoliberalism as a contribution to the theming of the current return of religion in the public space and their role as actors of civil society. Because Gronover illuminates claims of the Church glazier foods to strengthen individual and collective capacity to act in an environment that is characterized by the dismantling or the absence of state welfare systems.
After an introductory chapter on their entry into the field of research about the problem and methods (pp. 3-47), the first chapter deals with the history glazier foods of the Church of the Holy Trinity - la Magione (pp. 48-70). Discussed The second chapter "the healing of people and the sacralization of their environment" - the localization processes of the actors in the community, the strategies of symbolic reappropriation of urban space, glazier foods the exchange ratios that establish themselves in caring for the poor (p. 71-163). A third chapter describes the church, "the glazier foods mansio as Holy Family - their sacred representation and ritualistic worship" (p. 164-192). A summary concludes glazier foods the book.
Gronover took 18 months in the life of the parish of the Holy Trinity - La Magione in Palermo in part, their search for authenticity was decisive for the choice of this church: "In this, the field 'seem Padre Pio, all the other saints and religious kitsch not matter to play - on the contrary, here I mean to find the real life "(p. 19). Her research field constructed Gronover as a community in which social and spatial structures largely cover: "The methodological problem of narrowing down a field of research in an urban area I solved the fact that I focused on a defined area, in whom I found a classic community to have believed - a more or less community whose external relations can be studied "(p. 40). With their methods Gronover wanted to respond flexibly to the field, as its part it sees itself and requires the simultaneous and interlocking application glazier foods of different methods. In the center of the participant observation, further engages them stood back to life history and interviews with experts and on the analysis of archival, photo and movie data. With her ethnography she wants a "thick description" in the sense of Geertz `provide glazier foods a representation of structures of meaning and social discourses.
Gronover understands religion as a "reserve" and "regenerative power" of society. This universal function model of religion wins, the author of the analysis of a procession from the shrine glazier foods of Santa Rosalia of Palermo glazier foods outside the city. The procession describes it as "a glazier foods pendulum movement between countryside and city - a regenerative glazier foods practice by which from the nature in which the Holy originally lived and where their holy place is still a healing