Religion : An Anthropological Perspective Hardback
by H. Sidky
Part of the American University Studies series
Hardback
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Religion: An Anthropological Perspective provides a critical view of religion focusing upon important but overlooked topics such as religion, cognition, and prehistory; science, rationality, and religion; altered states of consciousness, entheogens and religious experience; religion and the paranormal; magic and divination; religion and ecology; fundamentalism; and religion and violence.
In addition, this book offers a unique and concise coverage of traditional topics of the anthropology of religion such as shamanism and witchcraft (past and present), ritual, myth, religious symbols, and revitalization movements.
A vast range of findings from ethnography, ethnology, cultural anthropology, archaeology, prehistory, history, and cognitive science are brought to bear on the subject.
Written in clear jargon-free prose, this book provides an accessible and comprehensive yet critical view of the anthropology of religion both for graduate and undergraduate students and general audiences.
Its scope and critical scientific orientation sets Religion: An Anthropological Perspective apart from all other treatments of the subject.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:279 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication Date:22/07/2015
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- ISBN:9781433129179
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:279 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication Date:22/07/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781433129179
