Religion, anthropology, and cognitive science
By: edited by Harvey Whitehouse, James Laidlaw
Contributors: Whitehouse, Harvey; Laidlaw, James
Series: Ritual studies monograph series; Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographs
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781594601071
Subjects: Ethnology -- Religious aspects; Cognition and culture; Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: Introduction / James Laidlaw & Harvey Whitehouse. Pt. 1. Core perspectives in the anthropology of religion. Anthropology and anthropomorphism in religion / Stewart Elliott Guthrie; title: Durkheimian anthropology and religion: going in and out of each other's bodies / Maurice Bloch; title: Malinowski and magical ritual / Jesper Sørensen; title: How "natives" don't think: the apotheosis of overinterpretation / Jonathan A. Lanman. Pt. 2. Core topics in the anthropology of religion. Witchcraft and sorcery / Emma Cohen; title: Ancestors and the afterlife / Rita Astuti; title: Gods / Justin L. Barrett. Pt. 3. Social anthropology, religion, and the cognitive sciences. A well-disposed social anthropologist's problems with the 'cognitive science of religion' / James Laidlaw; title: Towards and integration of ethnography, history, and the cognitive science of religion / Harvey Whitehouse