A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: November 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 736
ISBN-13: 9781405136150
Subjects: Anthropology; Religion: general; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; General; Sociology of Religion; ETHNOLOGY_RELIGIOUS ASPECTS; RELIGION; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Anthropology - General
First sentence: We begin with four classic and profound statements on the nature of religion which take us from one of the ablest evolutionists (Tylor), through the two greatest sociologists on the subject (Durkheim and Weber), to the anthropologist who has been, if not the most influential, at least the most talked about theoretician in the latter decades of the twentieth century (Geertz).
Notes: Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthrpology