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Books on: anthropology of religion

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Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook

Book by Stephen D. Glazier; Praeger, 1999

Subjects:

Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Religion has experienced growing importance in recent years, and interest in the anthropological study of religion has increased as well. This reference book offers a much-needed overview of the most significant topics and concerns in the field. Chapters by expert contributors examine such matters ...
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Religion has experienced growing importance in recent years, and interest in the anthropological study of religion has increased as well. This reference book offers a much-needed overview of the most significant topics and concerns in the field. Chapters by expert contributors examine such matters as snake handling, magic and ritual, shamanism, and the role of religion in particular cultures. Chapters contain extensive documentation, and a bibliography concludes the volume.
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Ordered Universes: Approaches to the Anthropology of Religion

Book by Morton Klass; Westview Press, 1995

Subjects:

Ethnology--Religious Aspects, Religion, Religions

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Approaches to the Anthropology of Religion Morton Klass Barnard...universes: approaches to the anthropology of religion/ Morton Klass. p. cm...days we students of the anthropology of religion have no textbooks either...
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Across the Boundaries of Belief: Contemporary Issues in the Anthropology of Religion

Book by Morton Klass, Maxine Weisgrau; Westview Press, 1999

Subjects:

Ethnology--Religious Aspects, Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

In this collection of anthropological writings drawn from many different world areas, contemporary theoretical issues and conflicts in the anthropological study of religion are explored and illustrated.
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The Development of Religion: A Study in Anthropology and Social Psychology

Book by Irving King; Macmillan, 1910

Subjects:

Religion, Social Psychology

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...TORONTO THE DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGION A STUDY IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY...outside the world of anthropology, presumes to interpret...acquaintance with some of the natural races...custom or primitive religion, if, indeed, he even...
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Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion

Book by Robert L. Arrington, Mark Addis; Routledge, 2001

Subjects:

Religion--Philosophy, Wittgenstein, Ludwig--1889-1951--Contributions In Philosophy Of Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

An exciting introduction to the contribution which the later Wittgenstein made to the philosophy of religion. Although his writings on the subject have been few, Wittgenstein developed influential and controversial theories on both religion (and magic) which emphasize the distinctive nature of ...
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An exciting introduction to the contribution which the later Wittgenstein made to the philosophy of religion. Although his writings on the subject have been few, Wittgenstein developed influential and controversial theories on both religion (and magic) which emphasize the distinctive nature of religious discourse and how this nature can be misunderstood when viewed in direct competition with science.The contributors of this collection shed new light on the perennial debate between faith and reason. The result is a collection that is both informative and stimulating.
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Journal Articles on: anthropology of religion

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Ritual and Belief: Readings in Thc Anthropology of Religion

Journal article by Simon Coleman; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 7, 2001

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...belief: readings in thc anthropology of religion by SIMON COLEMAN...belief: readings in thc anthropology of religion. vii-xxvi 454 pp., tables...undergraduate market for the anthropology of religion in mind. After an introductory...
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Lambek, Michael, Ed. A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion

Journal article by Elizabeth A. Ragan; International Social Science Review, Vol. 78, 2003

Subjects:

A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Michael, Ed. A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion. by Elizabeth A...graduate-level courses in the anthropology of religion or symbolic/interpretive...experience using readers in anthropology of religion courses, the textual density...
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Shifting Aims, Moving Targets: On the Anthropology of Religion*

Journal article by Clifford Geertz; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 11, 2005

Subjects:

Anthropology--Speeches, lectures and essays, Frazer, James George--Speeches, lectures and essays, Religions--Speeches, lectures and essays

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Moving Targets: On the Anthropology of Religion*. by Clifford Geertz...particular subject: the anthropology of religion. Why I have spent so much...and most especially the anthropology of religion, into the conceptually more...
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Religions in Practice: An Approach to the Anthropology of Religion

Journal article by Gregory Forth; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 5, 1999

Subjects:

Books--Reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Practice: An Approach to the Anthropology of Religion by Gregory Forth...undergraduate courses on the anthropology of religion. Such books are commonly...generalization. Evidently, the anthropology of religion is treated as an institutional...
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Reginald W. Bibby, Restless Gods: The Renaissance of Religion in Canada

Journal article by David Nock; The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 40, 2003

Subjects:

Restless Gods: the Renaissance of Religion in Canada (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Restless Gods: the Renaissance of Religion in Canada. by David Nock...third major inquest into the state of religion in Canada. The first was published...precision relative to the decline of religion. To some members of the mass media...

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Magazine Articles on: anthropology of religion

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Satinover V. Barr

Magazine article by Jeffrey Satinover, Stephen M. Barr; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, May 2002

Subjects:

Brain--Philosophy, Philosophical anthropology--Analysis, Quantum theory--Psychological aspects, The Quantum Brain (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Psychology, Entire Library

...Barr I suppose I should appreciate much of Stephen M. Barrs largely favorable review of my book The Quantum Brain (November 2001). But...have preferred a scathing denunciation, were it of what I actually wrote. The argument he lavishly...
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Redeeming Flesh

Magazine article by Adam G. Cooper; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, May 2007

Subjects:

Deleuze, Gilles--Death of, Man (Christian theology)--Analysis, Mind and body--Analysis, Philosophers--Death of, Philosophers--Practice, Suicide--Analysis, Theological anthropology--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...4, 1995. Avenue Niel, Paris. The broken body of an old man lies crumpled on the footpath. It is that of Gilles Deleuze, the philosopher. His apartment...enough what has happened. After twenty-five years of increasing physical infirmity, the struggle...
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The Naked Public Square Now: A Symposium

Magazine article; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, November 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...mainline leaders who once anchored public religion in America were sidelining themselves...intruding upon the mediating institutions of civil society. In 1984 Neuhaus criticized...Pope John Paul II has called "a Christian anthropology" of human persons naturally embedded in...
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Absolutely Free

Magazine article by Richard John Neuhaus; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, March 1998

Subjects:

John Paul II, Pope--Attitudes, Liberty--Religious aspects, Religion--Political aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...he would have to move in the direction of religion to achieve a higher synthesis. But of course, as it turned out, Sartre sought that...and maximal oppression of freedom. Wojtylas anthropology of freedom is as modern as Sartres. For Sartre...
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Contract, Covenant, and the Beginning of "The American Century"

Magazine article by Richard John Neuhaus; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, November 2000

Subjects:

Culture--Religious aspects, Idealism--Analysis, Religion--United States, United States--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...terrible experience of the European wars of religion occasioned by the sixteenth-century Reformation, many of the brightest and best, including many...the same time, Christianity provides an anthropology of persons created in the image of God...

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Newspaper Articles on: anthropology of religion

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Anti-Religion Film in Creche Season

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 24, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...non-Christian one." Despite his take on religion, Mr. Pullmans stories are marvelously...that his books "are about the killing of God." * * * While shopping for gifts...particularly meritorious. Ann Marlowes "Anthropology Goes to War" describes whats happening...
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Films Explore Women's Rights, Religion, Drugs

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), January 28, 2007

Subjects:

American Museum of Natural History (New York, New York)--Social policy

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...departments of romance languages, English, anthropology and humanities. The program selection...aspiring composer from the drug capital of Mexico. The film explores drug smuggling...themes found in two seemingly different religions. The double-feature program for Feb...
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Relating Effects of Failed Marriages

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 11, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...first of Greek and Latin, later, of anthropology - and in an affair with a woman older...alive, finding freedom in the solitude of that remote place and stimulation for...is powerfully attracted to the art and religion of New Guinea; he longs to take it back...
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Courts Lack Consistency on Humans

Newspaper article by Larry Witham; The Washington Times, October 25, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Under a traditional anthropology, he said, the Kennedy...At the heart of liberty is the...increasingly forced religion to be a private...a free exercise of religion? Mr. Hasson wonders...Such a secular anthropology in the courts can...
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Museum Classroom Honors 'Grand Old Man of Science'

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), March 5, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Orr, UO geological sciences professor: History of the Condon Collection April 21: Donald Grayson, University of Washington anthropology professor: Ice Age Extinctions The new exhibit at the UO includes 50 historic photographs of Thomas Condon...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: anthropology of religion

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Anthropomorphism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...events such as war and death, and abstractions such as love, beauty, strife, and hate. As used by students of religion and anthropology the term is applied to certain systems of religious belief, usually polytheistic. Although some degree of anthropomorphism...
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Sacrifice

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the United States, practitioners of Afro-Caribbean religions such as voodoo and Santeria have been subject...Sacrifice in Islam (1981); W. Burkert, Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth (1983...
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Freud, Sigmund

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...an investigation of the origins of religion and morality, and Moses and Monotheism (1939, tr. 1939) are the result of his application of psychoanalytic...influencing fields as diverse as anthropology, education, art, and literary criticism...
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Mythology

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...myths. Students of anthropology, folklore, and religion study myths in...Middle Eastern religions ). Myth has been...the enrichment of literature since...Science, and Religion (1948); J. Campbell, The Masks of God (4 vol...
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Evans-Pritchard, Edward Evan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...contributions lie in the fields of social anthropology and comparative religion. His writings include The Nuer...Nuer (1951); Essays in Social Anthropology (1962); Theories of Primitive Religion (1965); and The Azande (1971...

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