Author : Brian Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 1987-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521339919
A lucid outline of explanations of religious phenomena offered by such great thinkers as Hegel, Marx, and Weber.
Author : Brian Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521852418
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.
Author : James S Bielo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317542827
Anthropology 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 : Robert L. Winzeler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 47,21 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0759121893
Drawing 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 : Jack David Eller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134131925
This 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 : Lionel Obadia
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1780522290
Explores 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.
Author : Carles Salazar
Publisher :
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 34,33 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781782384885
The relationships between science and religion are about to enter a new phase in our contemporary world, as scientific knowledge has become increasingly relevant in ordinary life, beyond the institutional public spaces where it traditionally developed. The purpose of this volume is to analyze the relationships, possible articulations and contradictions between religion and science as forms of life: ways of engaging human experience that originate in particular social and cultural formations. Contributions expound on this theoretical and ethnographic research into different manifestations of scientific and religious cultures in the contemporary world.
Author : Samuli Schielke
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0857455079
Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be. Rather than putting everyday practice and normative doctrine on different analytical planes, the authors argue that the articulation of religious doctrine is also an everyday practice and must be understood as such.
Author : Benson Saler
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781571812193
How 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 : Phillips Stevens, Jr.
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,78 MB
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : Anthropology of religion
ISBN : 9780415494236
Anthropology of Religion is a new title in Routledge's Critical Concepts in Religious Studies series. In four volumes, it brings together canonical and the very best cutting-edge scholarship.
