Religion and anthropology: a critical introduction

"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 religious traditions that have been studied co...

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Main Author: Morris, Brian 1936- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Cambridge Univ. Press 2006
Edition:1. publ.
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Summary:"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 religious traditions that have been studied concretely by anthropologists: Shamanism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity and its relation to African and Melanesian religions, and contemporary Neo-Paganism"--P. [4] of cover.
Item Description:"This book is in a real sense and update and a sequel to my text 'Anthropological studies of religion' (1987)"--P. 1.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-344) and index
Physical Description:X, 350 S.
ISBN:0521852412
9780521852418
9780521617796
0521617790

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