A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion (Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: December 1, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780631221128
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).