AUTOR/ES: Crapo
ISBN: 0072387238
AÑO: 2003
EDICION: 1ª
IDIOMA: Inglés
PÁGINAS: 336
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DE INTERES PARA: Temática > Ciencias Humanas
RELACIONADOS: Antropología/ Filosofía
PUNTOS CLAVE: Offers students a systematic examination of the basic concepts used by anthropologists for defining religion and its subsystems of religious ideology, religious social organization, religious technology, and religious behavior. It examines the historic issues that have been involved in the search for a cross-culturally valid definition of religion and places religion in the broader context of expressive culture, highlighting the similarities and differences between religion, art, play and other forms of expressive culture. Extended narrative examples illustrate the theoretical and analytic discussions in the text, expose students to a variety of different religions, and provide real-world examples of the concepts of each chapter. An integrated student study guide (self-test materials) at the end of each chapter allows students to evaluate their own mastery of each chapter, determine what they need to review further, and prepare for course tests. The text is copiously illustrated with ethnographic examples from both western and nonwestern religions
CONTENIDOS: This text offers an alternative to the case-driven approach that the sole use of a reader tends to foster. It provides students with ways of conceptualizing what religion is, what its social and psychological functions are, the nature of religious symbolism and religious behavior, and the organizational structure of religions. This text covers all the standard topics (e.g., ideology and symbolism, ritual and ceremony, organizational forms, and social and psychological functions of religion) as well as ones of more recent interest such as religion and gender, the psychology of religion, and pilgrimage.
INDICE: Chapter 1: Anthropological Viewpoints about Religion Chapter 2: Diversity and Unity in the World¿s Religions Chapter 3: Religion as Expressive Culture Chapter 4: The Psychology of Religion Chapter 5: Religious Beliefs and Symbols Chapter 6: Language, Belief, and Religion Chapter 7: Religious Ritual Chapter 8: Religious Social Organization Chapter 9: Religion and Social Order: Economics, Politics and Gender Chapter 10: Religious Adaptation and Change Glossary