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RELIGION AND ANTHROPOLOGY
A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION |
| By: |
Brian Morris |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£49.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521617790 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521617796 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
7 November, 2005 |
| Pages: |
362 |
| Description: |
This book provides an introduction to the extensive anthropological literature on religion that has been produced over the past forty years. |
| Synopsis: |
This important textbook provides a critical introduction to the social anthropology of religion, focusing on more recent classical ethnographies. Comprehensive, free of scholastic jargon, engaging, and comparative in approach, it covers all the major religious traditions that have been studied concretely by anthropologists - Shamanism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity and its relation to African and Melanesian religions and contemporary Neopaganism. Eschewing a thematic approach and treating religion as a social institution and not simply as an ideology or symbolic system, the book follows the dual heritage of social anthropology in combining an interpretative understanding and sociological analysis. The book will appeal to all students of anthropology, whether established scholars or initiates to the discipline, as well as to students of the social sciences and religious studies, and for all those interested in comparative religion. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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