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Article: Religion, agency restitution. (Books Reviews: Theory).(Book Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- September 1, 2002
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LITTLEWOOD, ROLAND. Religion, agency restitution (Wilde Lectures in Natural Religion 1999). 175 pp., bibliogr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2001. [pounds sterling]30.00 (cloth), [pounds sterling]13.99 (paper)
There are things, there are ideas, and there are words about ideas. For many of us, things, ideas, and words operate in different realms, each with its own laws. For others this is not so. For some believers, even the bits of ink and paper that transcribe words have agency, not merely as information or exhortation to action, but in and of themselves. Word counts signify and typos have cosmological consequences. For other believers, cosmology operates under laws ...