Peter Metcalf

The Anthropology of Religion (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book describes how anthropologists in the twentieth century went about documenting the religions of those independent peoples who still lived beyond the frontiers of the global economy and the world religions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000782356
• Artikelnr.: 65988071

Autorenporträt

Peter Metcalf is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, USA. He has conducted fieldwork in central Borneo over many years and written extensively about its peoples and cultures. He has also written about issues in comparative religion, especially as concerns death rituals worldwide and throughout history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introducing the Independent Thinkers 1. "Such Turbulent Human Material" 2.
The Mirror of Modernity 3. The Phenomenon of the Golden Bough 4. If I was a
Horse 5. The Essence of Religion 6. On the Uselessness of Ritual 7.
Einstein in The Outback 8. Real Knowledge of Real Worlds 9. Integrity of
Science and Religion 10. Laying Tylor's Ghost 11. Exorcising Freud 12.
What's Only Natural 13. Beginnings, Middles, and Ends 14. No One Believes
in Things That Aren't There 15. Being Reasonable 16. Invitations You Can't
Refuse 17. Nature Does Not Work Independently Of Man 18. Findings
Postscript: Religion and Evolution