What matters? : ethnographies of value in a not so secular age / edited by Courtney Bender and Ann Taves.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Things of value / Ann Taves, Courtney Bender -- From a materialist ethic to the spirit of prehistory / Silvia Tomášková -- Conquering religious contagions and crowds : nineteenth-century psychologists and the unfinished subjugation of superstition and irrationality / Christopher White -- Religious and secular, "spiritual" and "physical" in Ghana / Birgit Meyer -- Volunteer experience / Erica Bornstein -- Secular humanitarianism and the value of life / Peter Redfield -- Homeschooling the enchanted child : ambivalent attachments in the domestic southwest / Rebecca Allahyari -- Mind matters : Esalen's Sursem group and the ethnography of consciousness / Jeffrey J. Kripal -- Tribalism, experience, and remixology in global psytrance culture / Grahan St John.