Ramon Sarró is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon. He read anthropology in London (PhD 1999). In 2000-2002 he was the Ioma Evans-Pritchard Junior Research Fellow at Saint Anne's College, Oxford. His publications include Surviving Iconoclasm: Religious and Political Transformation on the Upper Guinea Coast (Edinburgh University Press, 2006).

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. On Learning Religion: An Introduction
David Berliner and Ramon Sarró

Chapter 2. Learning to Believe: A Preliminary Approach
Carlo Severi

Chapter 3. Menstrual Slaps and First Blood Celebrations: Inference, Simulation and the Learning of Ritual
Michael Houseman

Chapter 4. The Accidental in Religious Instruction: Ideas and Convictions
David Parkin

Chapter 5. On Catching Up With Oneself: Learning to Know That One Means What One Does
Michael Lambek

Chapter 6. How Do You Learn to Know That it is God Who Speaks?
T.M. Luhrmann

Chapter 7. How to Learn in an Afro-Brazilian Spirit Possession Religion: Ontology and Multiplicity in Candomblé
Marcio Goldman

Chapter 8. Learning to be a Proper Medium: Middle-Class Womanhood and Spirit Mediumship at Christian Rationalist Séances in Cape Verde
João Vasconcelos

Chapter 9. Copyright and Authorship: Ritual Speech and the New Market of Words in Toraja
Aurora Donzelli

Chapter 10. Learning Faith: Young Christians and Catechism
Laurence Hérault

Chapter 11. What is Interesting about Chinese Religion
Charles Stafford

Chapter 12. The Sound of Witchcraft: Noise as Mediation in Religious Transmission
Michael Rowlands

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index