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In Search of the Sacred

Anthropology and the Study of Religions

by Dr. Clinton Bennett

  • Paperback
  • 228 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.3 cm

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For students and scholars of anthropology and religion

Clarifies complex connections between two disciplines

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This insightful book explores anthropology's relationship with the study of religions.

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This book traces the birth and development of two related but distinct disciplines, anthropology and the study of religions. It begins by locating these within the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, and within this historical framwork goes on to discuss the contributions of such significant scholars as James George Frazer, F. Max Muller, Emile Durkheim, Mary Douglas and Clifford Geertz. The author argues that both anthropologists and students of religion have abandoned an impersonal, so-called 'objective'approach in favour of personal engagement with their subjects, replacing observation with conversation, monologue with dialogue and text-based wiwith a people-based approach. The book reveals how each discipline has influenced the other, both in terms of methodology and by the provision of data. It also explores the criticism levelled at both disciplines, that they have aided colonial domination of the developing world.
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  • Author

    Dr. Clinton Bennett

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    January 1996

  • Weight

    327g

  • Page Count

    228

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780304336821

  • ISBN-10

    0304336823

  • Eden Code

    3950761

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