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Religion and Anthropology: A Critical Introduction Book

Paperback. Pub Date: 2005 Pages: 264 Publisher: Camidge. University Press This important textbook provides a critical introduction to the social anthropology of religion focusing on more recent the 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...Read More

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  • Blackwell

    This important study 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...

  • ASDA

    This book provides a readable comprehensive and critical introduction to the extensive anthropological literature on religion that has been produced over the past forty years.

  • 0521617790
  • 9780521617796
  • Brian Morris
  • 7 November 2005
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 360
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