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Experience and Diversity in Religious Practice

Mayotte and the Anthropology of Religion

Emory University

Major issues in the anthropology of religious knowledge and practice are brought to center stage in Michael Lambek's monograph on Islam, sorcery, and spirit possession in Mayotte. Lambek's work continues a tradition of detailed ethnography of alternative religions and expands this horizon by examining the multistranded connections that actors have to different forms of religious knowledge within a local community. Important larger questions are raised concerning religious knowledge, power, and the historical and contemporary interpenetration between different spiritual and religious traditions.

Key Words: insular East Africa • knowledge • power • practice • religious experience

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