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Selected Readings in the Anthropology of Religion - Theoretical and Methodological Essays (Hardcover, New)
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Selected Readings in the Anthropology of Religion - Theoretical and Methodological Essays (Hardcover, New)
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Brings together in one volume a number of key theoretical and
methodological advances in the anthropological study of religion.
Chapters cover important topics not ordinarily included in books
dealing with the anthropology of religion (e.g., bipedalism, the
study of alcohol, film and video images, notions of religious
agency). In addition, this collection is intended to build bridges
between anthropologists of religion and religious studies scholars.
Over the last four decades, anthropologists have grappled with the
dialectical relationship between the examination of cultures from
the emic, or insider, perspective, and the etic, or outsider,
perspective. Nowhere is this creative tension more evident than in
the anthropological study of religion. In this volume,
anthropologists and religious studies scholars come to terms not
only with a landscape that has shifted fundamentally, but a
landscape that is still shifting. Essays in this collection raise
new and important issues for the anthropological study of religion
in new and important ways. In intensely personal essays, a number
of contributors address two fundamental concerns in the study of
religion: (1) how should anthropologists deal with the beliefs and
practices of others?, and (2) how should anthropologists deal with
their own religious backgrounds and beliefs as these may affect
their understanding of the beliefs and practices of others? A
partial resolution to both questions is necessary before the
anthropological study of religion can advance to a higher level.
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