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Ordered Universes - Approaches To The Anthropology Of Religion (Paperback)
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This innovative introduction to the anthropological study of
religion challenges traditional categories and assumptions, arguing
that too many of them reflect ethnocentric perspectives long
discarded by contemporary anthropologists. The continued use of
such terms as "supernatural" and "cult" inescapably communicates
that what is under study is not as real or true as the beliefs of
the observer. This conflict between the axioms of science and
Western scholarship and those of the belief systems under study can
be avoided with careful attention to terminology and underlying
assumptions."Ordered Universes" introduces and explores important
anthropological issues, concerns, and findings about the
institution of religion approached as a human cultural universal.
Klass applies a non-ethnocentric perspective to each topic, relying
on contemporary anthropological theories and using approaches
deriving from other subdivisions of the discipline. Offering
operational, non-judgmental definitions that avoid taking a
position on whether the belief under study is "true" and providing
examples from ethnographic (and other) literature on religion,
Klass explores values, beliefs, witchcraft, shamans, sacrifice,
ghosts, revitalization, and many other concepts. In the final
chapters, he considers the emergence of new religious movements and
leaders and evaluates the continuing ideological conflict between
proponents of scientistic, fundamentalist, and post-rationalist
systems of thought.
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