Religion and Anthropology: A Critical Introduction

Type

Book

Authors

Brian Morris

ISBN 10

0521617790

ISBN 13

9780521617796

Tags

Sociology, Cultural, General, Anthropology

Description

Focusing on more recent classical ethnographies, this important study provides a critical introduction to the social anthropology of religion. 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. 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 approach with sociological analysis. - from Amzon

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