Understanding religion: selected essays
Part I: Orientations -- Introduction -- The ethnographer as pontifex -- Part II: Homage to three pioneers -- E.B. Tylor and the anthropology of religion -- Culture in phylogenetic perspective : an appreciation of the contributions of A.I. Hallowell -- Part III: Beliefs -- On what we may believe abou...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Berlin [u.a.]
De Gruyter
2009
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Religion and reason (48)
Year: 2009 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Series/Journal: | Religion and reason
48 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
B Science of Religion |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Religion B Conference program |
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Table of Contents (Publisher) |
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| Summary: | Part I: Orientations -- Introduction -- The ethnographer as pontifex -- Part II: Homage to three pioneers -- E.B. Tylor and the anthropology of religion -- Culture in phylogenetic perspective : an appreciation of the contributions of A.I. Hallowell -- Part III: Beliefs -- On what we may believe about beliefs -- Finding Wayú religion -- On credulity -- Secondary beliefs and the alien abduction phenomenon -- Part IV: Studying religion : some conceptual issues -- Family resemblance and the definition of religion -- Conceptualizing religion : the matter of boundaries -- Comparison : some suggestions for improving the inevitable -- Biology and religion : on establishing a problematic -- Toward a realistic and relevant science of religion |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index "Twelve of the essays selected for this collection were published between 1997 and 2007. One essay, Culture in phylogenetic perspective : an appreciation of the contributions of A. I. Hallowell, was not actually published; it was read at a conference at Aarhus University in 2006. Most of the published essays were originally conference papers"--Pref. - Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | 245 S |
| ISBN: | 978-3-11-021865-7 |
