Religion and Anthropology: A Critical Introduction

Focusing on more recent classical ethnographies, this important study provides a critical introduction to the social anthropology of religion. It covers all the major religious traditions that have been studied concretely by anthropologists--Shamanism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity and its relation to African and Melanesian religions and contemporary Neopaganism. Treating religion as a social institution and not simply as an ideology or symbolic system, the book follows the dual heritage of social anthropology in combining an interpretative approach with sociological analysis.

Author: Brian Morris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/07/2005
Pages: 362
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780521852418

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2006 pg. 2010

About the Author
Morris, Brian: - Brian Morris is an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, at the University of London. His many publications include Chewa Medical Botany, Animals and Ancestors, Kropotkin: The Politics of Community, Insects and Human Life and Anthropological Studies of Religion: An Introductory Text (Cambridge, 1987).