Full Description
Religion: An Anthropological Perspective provides a critical view of religion focusing upon important but overlooked topics such as religion, cognition, and prehistory; science, rationality, and religion; altered states of consciousness, entheogens and religious experience; religion and the paranormal; magic and divination; religion and ecology; fundamentalism; and religion and violence. In addition, this book offers a unique and concise coverage of traditional topics of the anthropology of religion such as shamanism and witchcraft (past and present), ritual, myth, religious symbols, and revitalization movements. A vast range of findings from ethnography, ethnology, cultural anthropology, archaeology, prehistory, history, and cognitive science are brought to bear on the subject. Written in clear jargon-free prose, this book provides an accessible and comprehensive yet critical view of the anthropology of religion both for graduate and undergraduate students and general audiences. Its scope and critical scientific orientation sets Religion: An Anthropological Perspective apart from all other treatments of the subject.
Contents
Contents: Anthropology and Religion - Religion, Cognition, and Prehistory - Shamanism - Altered States of Consciousness and Religion - Entheogens and Religious Experience - Witchcraft: Evil in Human Form - Magic and Divination - Religion and the Paranormal - Religion: Organization and Evolutionary Patterns - Religion and Ecology - Ritual: The Practical Dimension of Religion - Myth: The Narrative Dimension of Religion - Symbols: The Representational Dimension of Religion - Revitalization Movements and the Origins of Religion - Fundamentalism - Religion and Violence.
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