Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality (Hardcover, New)

Professor Tambiah, one of today's leading anthropologists, is known particularly for his penetrating and scholarly studies of Buddhism. In this accessible and illuminating book he deals with the classical opposition between magic, science and religion. He reviews the great debates in classical Judaism, early Greek science, Renaissance philosophy, the Protestant Reformation, and the scientific revolution, and then reconsiders the three major interpretive approaches to magic in anthropology: the intellectualist and evolutionary theories of Tylor and Frazer, Malinowski's functionalism, and Levy Bruhl's philosophical anthropology, which posited a distinction between mystical and logical mentalities. There follows a wide-ranging and suggestive discussion of rationality and relativism. The book concludes with a discussion of thinking in the history and philosophy of science, which suggests interesting perspectives on the classical opposition between science and magic.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Release date:	March 1990
First published:	1990
Authors:	Stanley J. Tambiah
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	200
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-37486-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	0-521-37486-3
Barcode:	9780521374866

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