Waiting in A&E; Faith and Doubt
Laurie Taylor looks at research into the fragility of both religious and political belief systems. Also, waiting in A&E.
Faith and doubt: an ethnographic study into political and spiritual convictions in an age of uncertainty. Laurie Taylor talks to the Lecturer in Anthropology, Dr Mathijs Pelkmans, about wide ranging research which suggests that the foundations of religious and secular 'faiths' are surprisingly fragile. Drawing on a diverse range of cases, from spirit mediums in Taiwan to right-wing populists in Europe, he analyses the ways that belief systems are either sustained or collapse. He's joined by Alpa Shah who has studied Maoists revolutionaries in India. Also, Alexandra Hillman discusses her new paper on 'waiting' in hospital emergency departments.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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Alex Hillman
Research Associate, Cardiff School of Medicine, Primary Care and Public Health Research Group
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Abstract: Sociology of Health & Illness
doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12072
Mathijs Pelkmans
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology at London School of Economics
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Ethnographies of Doubt: Faith and Uncertainty in Contemporary Societies
Edited by Mathijs Pelkmans
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
ISBN-10: 1848858108
ISBN-13: 978-1848858107
Alpa Shah
Reader in the Department of Anthropology at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
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Chapter: ‘In search of Certainty in Revolutionary India’ by Alpa Shah
In Ethnographies of Doubt: Faith and Uncertainty in Contemporary Societies
Edited by Mathijs Pelkmans
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
ISBN-10: 1848858108
ISBN-13: 978-1848858107
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British anthropologist Alpa Shah visits a Maoist-controlled region of Jharkhand in eastern India and explores the appeal of the Maoist fighters to the poor communities.
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