description: 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.
language: English
title: Religion and Anthropology: A Critical Introduction
titlecomplete: Religion and Anthropology: A Critical Introduction
genres: Anthropology, Social Science, Religion, Academic, Nonfiction, Sociology
ratings_count: 71
publisher: Cambridge University Press