Overview
Focusing on more recent classical ethnographies, this important study provides a critical introduction to the social anthropology of religion. 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. 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 approach with sociological analysis.
- | Author: Brian Morris
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Nov 07, 2005
- | Number of Pages: 362 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0521617790
- | ISBN-13: 9780521617796
