Temporal Explorations in the Anthropology of Religion: History, Cosmology and Spirits

How do people make sense of their past, and look forward into their future, through practices – religious, spiritual or otherwise – in places of both modernity and political trauma?

This volume investigates how political, social, and individual temporal and historical horizons are generated and reformulated in relation to embodied, material, and ideological contexts. It also considers how this history—making projects itself onto imagined futures or alternative historical lines, creating temp...