Anthropology and Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anthropology and Religion write by Robert L. Winzeler. This book was released on 2012. Anthropology and Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing from ethnographic examples found throughout the world, this revised and updated text, hailed as the "best general text on religion in anthropology available," offers an introduction to what anthropologists know or think about religion, how they have studied it, and how...
Anthropology of Religion: The Basics
Anthropology of Religion: The Basics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anthropology of Religion: The Basics write by James S Bielo. This book was released on 2015-04-10. Anthropology of Religion: The Basics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anthropology of Religion: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introductory text organized around key issues that all anthropologists of religion face. This book uses a wide range of historical and ethnographic examples to address not only what is studied by anthropologists of religion, but how such studies are approached. It addresses questions such as: How do human agents interact with gods and spirits? What is the nature of doing religious ethnography? Can the immaterial be embodied in the body, language and material objects? What is the role of ritual, time, and place in religion? Why is charisma important for religious movements? How do global processes interact with religions? With international case studies from a range of religious traditions, suggestions for further reading, and inventive reflection boxes, Anthropology of Religion: The Basics is an essential read for students approaching the subject for the first time.
Introducing Anthropology of Religion
Introducing Anthropology of Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Introducing Anthropology of Religion write by Jack David Eller. This book was released on 2007-08-07. Introducing Anthropology of Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This lively and readable survey introduces students to key areas of the field and shows how to apply an anthropological approach to the study of contemporary world religions. Written by an experienced teacher, it covers all of the traditional topics of anthropology of religion, including definitions and theories, beliefs, symbols and language, and ritual and myth, and combines analytic and conceptual discussion with up-to-date ethnography and theory. Eller includes copious examples from religions around the world – both familiar and unfamiliar – and two mini-case studies in each chapter. He also explores classic and contemporary anthropological contributions to important but often overlooked issues such as violence and fundamentalism, morality, secularization, religion in America, and new religious movements. Introducing Anthropology of Religion demonstrates that anthropology is both relevant and essential for understanding the world we inhabit today.
Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes
Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes write by Samuli Schielke. This book was released on 2012-06-01. Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be. Rather than putting everyday practice and normative doctrine on different analytical planes, the authors argue that the articulation of religious doctrine is also an everyday practice and must be understood as such.
Religion and Anthropology
Religion and Anthropology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Anthropology write by Brian Morris. This book was released on 2006. Religion and Anthropology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This important 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.
