Pilgrims of Paradox: Calvinism and Experience Among the Primitive Baptists of the Blue Ridge (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry) - Hardcover
Book by Peacock, James L., Tyson, Ruel W., Jr.
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James Peacock is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was director of the Center for International Studies and chair of the faculty of UNC.
Ruel Tyson is professor emeritus of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is founder and former director of the Institute of Arts and Humanities.
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Ruel Tyson is professor emeritus of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is founder and former director of the Institute of Arts and Humanities.
This is among the most significant sociological studies of Calvinism since Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Peacock and Tyson present an engaging analysis of doctrine, history, and religious experience among southern Primitive Baptists, who are strict Calvinists with theological and historical roots in the English separatist tradition. ... In sum, this book is a strong critique of Durkheimian and Weberian traditions in symbolic anthropology, as well as an elegantly crafted case study. It is certain to spark interest and controversy in disciplines ranging from theology to sociology and it makes a cogent argument for the development of closer ties between cultural anthropology and religious studies.--Mark R. Woodward, American Anthropologist
For the folklorist, the treatment of fieldwork is one of the most pleasant aspects of Pilgrims of Paradox. Peacock and Tyson speak not of informants but of hosts. And it was as guests, good guests, that they did their fieldwork. ... This willingness to learn, not only about others but about themselves, is surely one of the major elements contributing to the success of these authors in their translation from academia to the field and in their translation of the field to academia.--William Bernard McCarthy, Journal of American Folklore
For the folklorist, the treatment of fieldwork is one of the most pleasant aspects of Pilgrims of Paradox. Peacock and Tyson speak not of informants but of hosts. And it was as guests, good guests, that they did their fieldwork. ... This willingness to learn, not only about others but about themselves, is surely one of the major elements contributing to the success of these authors in their translation from academia to the field and in their translation of the field to academia.--William Bernard McCarthy, Journal of American Folklore
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- PublisherSmithsonian Inst Pr
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0874749247
- ISBN 13 9780874749243
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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