This book provides an introduction to the extensive anthropological literature on religion that has been produced over the past forty years.
He develops this point by drawing on a distinction made by Ruth Benedict regarding North American Indian cultures. This distinction was between Apollonian and Dionysian, which Benedict had gotten from the philosopher Friedrich ...
James S Bielo. First published 2015 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 ... Cataloging in Publication Data Bielo, James S. Anthropology of religion : the basics / James Bielo. pages cm.
The text examines a full spectrum of religions, from small-scale societies to major, established religions.
Lawrence, Bruce B. (1989) Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt against the Modern Age, San Francisco, Calif. ... Levy, Leonard W. (1993) Blasphemy: Verbal Offense against the Sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie, New York: Alfred ...
Rebecca L Stein, Philip Stein. First published 2011, 2008, 2005 by Pearson Education, Inc. Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX144RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY, 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint ...
This Festschrift is dedicated to Prof. Dr. J. van Baal on the occasion of his retirement from the chair of cultural anthropology at the University of Utrecht. The essays presented...
A comprehensive anthropological study of religion traces the history of the discipline, discusses the archeological discoveries that have shed light on the development of religious consciousness, and examines the various...
Ordered Universes introduces and explores important anthropological issues, concerns, and findings about the institution of religion approached as a human cultural universal.
A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays that explore the variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the contemporary world and asks how to think about ...
The anthropological study of religion is at a crossroads. While fewer textbooks on the anthropology of religion are published each year and much of what is available is decades old,...