Religions in Practice: An Approach to the Anthropology of Religion (5th Edition)
Religion has often been considered a mystery to those who don't understand it or its theories. This book presents analyses and case studies on a wide variety of aspects of religion, from magic and healing to pilgrimages and contemporary religious movements. The book offers a discussion of theories of religion before considering topics of rites of passage, magic, witchcraft, sacrifice, taboos, images, sacred speech, religious movements, and the place of religion in today's nation-states. The examples come from all over the world and combines from small scale societies as well as large scale ones.  Anthropologists of religious studies, those of both the cloth and secular sectors.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.