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Author: Brian Morris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987-02-27
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780521339919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lucid outline of explanations of religious phenomena offered by such great thinkers as Hegel, Marx, and Weber.
Author: David Berliner
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2008-10
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1845455940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study. Yet, how people become religious is still poorly studied. This volume gathers some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to offer a new perspective for the study of religion, one that examines the works of transmission and innovation through the prism of learning. They argue that religious culture is socially and dynamically constructed by agents who are not mere passive recipients but engaged in active learning processes. Finding a middle way between the social and the cognitive, they see learning religions not as a mechanism of “downloading” but also as a social process with its relational dimension.
Author: James S Bielo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-04-10
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1317542827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnthropology of Religion: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introductory text organized around key issues that all anthropologists of religion face. This book uses a wide range of historical and ethnographic examples to address not only what is studied by anthropologists of religion, but how such studies are approached. It addresses questions such as: How do human agents interact with gods and spirits? What is the nature of doing religious ethnography? Can the immaterial be embodied in the body, language and material objects? What is the role of ritual, time, and place in religion? Why is charisma important for religious movements? How do global processes interact with religions? With international case studies from a range of religious traditions, suggestions for further reading, and inventive reflection boxes, Anthropology of Religion: The Basics is an essential read for students approaching the subject for the first time.
Author: Benson Saler
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781571812193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow might we transform a folk category - in this case religion - into a analytical category suitable for cross-cultural research? In this volume, the author addresses that question. He critically explores various approaches to the problem of conceptualizing religion, particularly with respect to certain disciplinary interests of anthropologists. He argues that the concept of family resemblances, as that concept has been refined and extended in prototype theory in the contemporary cognitive sciences, is the most plausible analytical strategy for resolving the central problem of the book. In the solution proposed, religion is conceptualized as an affair of "more or less" rather than a matter of "yes or no," and no sharp line is drawn between religion and non-religion.
Author: Timothy Larsen
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2014-08-29
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0191632058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout its entire history, the discipline of anthropology has been perceived as undermining, or even discrediting, Christian faith. Many of its most prominent theorists have been agnostics who assumed that ethnographic findings and theories had exposed religious beliefs to be untenable. E. B. Tylor, the founder of the discipline in Britain, lost his faith through studying anthropology. James Frazer saw the material that he presented in his highly influential work, The Golden Bough, as demonstrating that Christian thought was based on the erroneous thought patterns of 'savages.' On the other hand, some of the most eminent anthropologists have been Christians, including E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, and Edith Turner. Moreover, they openly presented articulate reasons for how their religious convictions cohered with their professional work. Despite being a major site of friction between faith and modern thought, the relationship between anthropology and Christianity has never before been the subject of a book-length study. In this groundbreaking work, Timothy Larsen examines the point where doubt and faith collide with anthropological theory and evidence.
Author: Rebecca L Stein
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-08-07
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1317350219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book emphasizes the major concepts of both anthropology and the anthropology of religion and examines religious expression from a cross-cultural perspective while incorporating key theoretical concepts. It is aimed at students encountering anthropology for the first time.
Author: Jack David Eller
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-08-07
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1134131925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis lively and readable survey introduces students to key areas of the field and shows how to apply an anthropological approach to the study of contemporary world religions. Written by an experienced teacher, it covers all of the traditional topics of anthropology of religion, including definitions and theories, beliefs, symbols and language, and ritual and myth, and combines analytic and conceptual discussion with up-to-date ethnography and theory. Eller includes copious examples from religions around the world – both familiar and unfamiliar – and two mini-case studies in each chapter. He also explores classic and contemporary anthropological contributions to important but often overlooked issues such as violence and fundamentalism, morality, secularization, religion in America, and new religious movements. Introducing Anthropology of Religion demonstrates that anthropology is both relevant and essential for understanding the world we inhabit today.
Author: Stephen D. Glazier
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1999-01-30
Total Pages: 568
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKChapters by expert contributors overview the most significant topics and trends in the anthropology of religion.
Author: Robert L. Winzeler
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 0759121893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing from ethnographic examples found throughout the world, this revised and updated text, hailed as the "best general text on religion in anthropology available," offers an introduction to what anthropologists know or think about religion, how they have studied it, and how...
Author: Lionel Obadia
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2011-10-25
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1780522290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the fresh paradigms of 'religious economics' and 'economies of religion' under the scope of transdisciplinary and international perspectives. This title examines and appraises some of the theoretical developments and methodological innovations in religious and social sciences.
