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Drawing from ethnographic examples found throughout the world, this revised and updated text, hailed as the best general text on religion in ... More

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"A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion" is a collection of some of the most significant classic and contemporary writings in the field. Updated in ... More

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This introductory text combines discussion of the origin and development of ideas and debates within the anthropology of religion with a look at ... More

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Ethnographies exploring the vastly different ways that Christianity is experienced and understood by different groups around the world.

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This introductory text combines discussion of the origin and development of ideas and debates within the anthropology of religion with a look at ... More

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This collection of articles is intended for scholars and students of ethnology, folkloristics, religious studies, anthropology, area studies, ... More

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Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition--a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of ... More

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"Christian theology has given to the human sciences at large hermeneutics as an interpretive science of meaning. This remarkable collection of essays ... More

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Over the last decade the sociology of religion and religious studies have experienced a surge of ethnographic research. Scholars now use ethnography, ... More

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This widely used textbook offers a unique perspective on how people engage in everyday religious practices--such as prayer, sacrifice, initiation, ... More

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An anthropological examination of religious practices. Religions in Practice offers a unique perspective on how people engage in everyday religious ... More

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This 2006 book provides an introduction to the extensive anthropological literature on religion that has been produced over the past forty years.

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"In this collection of anthropological writings drawn from many different world areas, contemporary theoretical issues and conflicts in the ... More

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"This innovative introduction to the anthropological study of religion challenges traditional categories and assumptions, arguing that too many of ... More

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Religion: A Humanist Interpretation represents a lifetime's work on the anthropology of religion from a rather unusual personal viewpoint. Raymond ... More

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The weakness of Brazil's black consciousness movement is commonly attributed to the fragility of Afro-Brazilian ethnic identity. In a major account, ... More

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This book addresses the growing academic concerns of the market-religion convergences in Asia. Bringing together a group of leading scholars from ... More

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Sangre llama a sangre. (Blood cries out to blood.)--Latin American aphorism The common "blood" of a people--that imperceptible flow that binds ... More

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At the end of the twentieth century the United States, is left with a school system widely believed to be in decline. In Holy Sparks, Philip Wexler ... More

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A personal and penetrating examination of suburban spirituality, revealing the corrosive effects of the suburbs on our souls and the spiritual ... More

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This book carries an ethnographic signature in approach and style, and is an examination of a small Brooklyn, New York, African-American, Pentecostal ... More

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This topical collection of eleven commissioned essays assesses the link between postmodernity and religion from a sociological perspective. It breaks ... More

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The twentieth century has been marked by an unprecedented outburst of religious activity on a world-wide scale, and in particular by a mushrooming of ... More

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