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In Search of the Sacred (Paperback)
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In Search of the Sacred (Paperback)
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This book traces the birth and development of two related but
distinct disciplines, anthropology and the study of religions. It
begins by locating these within the intellectual climate of the
nineteenth century, and within this historical framwork goes on to
discuss the contributions of such significant scholars as James
George Frazer, F. Max Muller, Emile Durkheim, Mary Douglas and
Clifford Geertz. The author argues that both anthropologists and
students of religion have abandoned an impersonal, so-called
'objective'approach in favour of personal engagement with their
subjects, replacing observation with conversation, monologue with
dialogue and text-based wiwith a people-based approach. The book
reveals how each discipline has influenced the other, both in terms
of methodology and by the provision of data. It also explores the
criticism levelled at both disciplines, that they have aided
colonial domination of the developing world.
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