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This important 2006 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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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

• Full title: Religion and Anthropology
• Author: Brian Morris
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 362
• EAN: 9780521617796
• ISBN: 0521617790
• ID: 04093389
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 560 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. November 2005

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