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Religion and Anthropology

A Critical Introduction

  • Paperback
  • 362 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

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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.
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  • Author

    Brian Morris (university Of London)

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    November 2005

  • Weight

    473g

  • Page Count

    362

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521617796

  • ISBN-10

    0521617790

  • Eden Code

    3825377

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