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Theorizing the Anthropology of Belief

Author : Luke J. Matthews
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003837190
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Theorizing the Anthropology of Belief written by Luke J. Matthews and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores both scientific and humanistic theoretical traditions in anthropology through the lens of ontology. The first part of the book examines different methods for generating valid anthropological knowledge and proposes a shift in current consensus. Drawing on Western scholars of antiquity and the medieval period and moving away from 20th-century theorists, it argues that we must first make ontological assumptions about the kinds of things that can exist (or not) before we can then develop epistemologies that study those kinds of things. The book goes on to apply the ontology-first theory to a set of case studies in modern day conspiracy theories, misinformation, and magical thinking. It asserts that we need to move away from unneeded metaphysical assumptions of conspiracy theories being misinformation and argues that reconstructing particular historical events can be a fruitful zone for application of quantitative methods to humanistic questions. Theorizing the Anthropology of Belief is an excellent supplementary suitable for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in anthropological theory.

Theorizing Rituals, Volume 1: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts

Author : Jens Kreinath
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047410777
Total Pages : 803 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Rituals, Volume 1: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts written by Jens Kreinath and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume one of Theorizing Rituals assembles 34 leading scholars from various countries and disciplines working within this field.

Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Author : R. Jon McGee
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452276307
Total Pages : 1053 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology written by R. Jon McGee and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 1053 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social and cultural anthropology and archaeology are rich subjects with deep connections in the social and physical sciences. Over the past 150 years, the subject matter and different theoretical perspectives have expanded so greatly that no single individual can command all of it. Consequently, both advanced students and professionals may be confronted with theoretical positions and names of theorists with whom they are only partially familiar, if they have heard of them at all. Students, in particular, are likely to turn to the web to find quick background information on theorists and theories. However, most web-based information is inaccurate and/or lacks depth. Students and professionals need a source to provide a quick overview of a particular theory and theorist with just the basics—the "who, what, where, how, and why," if you will. In response, SAGE Reference plans to publish the two-volume Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia. Features & Benefits: Two volumes containing approximately 335 signed entries provide users with the most authoritative and thorough reference resource available on anthropology theory, both in terms of breadth and depth of coverage. To ease navigation between and among related entries, a Reader's Guide groups entries thematically and each entry is followed by Cross-References. In the electronic version, the Reader's Guide combines with the Cross-References and a detailed Index to provide robust search-and-browse capabilities. An appendix with a Chronology of Anthropology Theory allows students to easily chart directions and trends in thought and theory from early times to the present. Suggestions for Further Reading at the end of each entry and a Master Bibliography at the end guide readers to sources for more detailed research and discussion.

Anthropological Studies of Religion

Author : Brian Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521339919
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Anthropological Studies of Religion written by Brian Morris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-02-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lucid outline of explanations of religious phenomena offered by such great thinkers as Hegel, Marx, and Weber.

Symbol and Theory

Author : John Skorupski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521272520
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Symbol and Theory written by John Skorupski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-03-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologists have always been concerned with the difference between traditional (or 'primitive') and scientific modes of thought and with the relationships between magic, religion and science. John Skorupski distinguishes two broadly opposed approaches to these problems: the 'intellectualist' regards primitive systems of thought and actions as cosmologies, comparable to scientific theory, which emerge and persist as attempts to control the natural world; the 'symbolist' regards them as essentially representative or expressive of the pattern of social relations in the culture in which they exist. Dr Skorupski considers in particular the notions of ritual, ceremony and symbol. He shows how their understanding involves and suggests more general philosophical problems of relativism, interpretation, translation, and the connections between belief and action. These are difficult and important problems and require an unusual combination of imagination and interdisciplinary exercise. This book is intended especially for philosophers, social anthropologists, social theorists and students of comparative religion.

The Anthropology of Religion, Charisma, and Ghosts

Author : Stephan Feuchtwang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110223554
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Anthropology of Religion, Charisma, and Ghosts written by Stephan Feuchtwang and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has many religions. But rituals of local temples are none of these. They celebrate many gods and their powers to respond. Gods are invited as welcome guests by appropriate rituals of welcome and communication. Other rituals pacify ghosts and harmful powers. These rituals are rich with their own poetry, a poetry of performance, not just of contemplation. Interpreting this poetry demands revision of theories of ritual and religion. The author has spent over four decades studying Chinese ritual and religion through observation in contemporary China and Taiwan, constantly revising and rethinking theories of religion, ritual and their role in different political regimes.

Ritual and Memory

Author : Harvey Whitehouse
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0759115443
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Ritual and Memory written by Harvey Whitehouse and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004-08-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers a skeptical pause. In Ritual and Memory, however, a wide range of ethnographers grapple critically with Harvey Whitehouse's theory of two divergent modes of religiosity. Although these contributors differ in their methods, their areas of fieldwork, and their predisposition towards Whitehouse's cognitively-based approach, they all help evaluate and refine Whitehouse's theory and so contribute to a new comparative approach in the anthropology of religion.

The Naturalness of Religious Ideas

Author : Pascal Boyer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520911628
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book The Naturalness of Religious Ideas written by Pascal Boyer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people have religious ideas? And why thosereligious ideas? The main theme of Pascal Boyer's work is that important aspects of religious representations are constrained by universal properties of the human mind-brain. Experimental results from developmental psychology, he says, can explain why certain religious representations are more likely to be acquired, stored, and transmitted by human minds. Considering these universal constraints, Boyer proposes an exciting new answer to the question of why similar religious representations are found in so many different cultures. His work will be widely discussed by cultural anthropologists, psychologists, and students of religion, history, and philosophy.

Theory and Method in the Study of Religion

Author : Carl Olson
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Theory and Method in the Study of Religion written by Carl Olson and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2003 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology provides students with a useful collection of theoretical essays concerning the nature of religion and the methodological means by which scholars analytically approach the subject. Organized in a point/counterpoint fashion, this volume will foster in-class discussion and the honing of a student's own critical perspectives.

Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth

Author : Nickolas P. Roubekas
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004435026
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth written by Nickolas P. Roubekas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking its cue from Robert A. Segal’s work, Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth: Contributions in Honor of Robert A. Segal offers a set of essays by renowned scholars addressing the persisting question of how to approach religion and myth as academic categories.

Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life

Author : Joel Robbins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192583697
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life written by Joel Robbins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropological theory can radically transform our understanding of human experience and offer theologians an introduction to the interdisciplinary nature between anthropology and Christianity. Both sociocultural anthropology and theology have made fundamental contributions to our understanding of human experience and the place of humanity in the world. But can these two disciplines, despite the radical differences that separate them, work together to transform their thinking on these topics? Robbins argues that they can. To make this point, he draws on key theological discussions of atonement, eschatology, interruption, passivity, and judgement to rethink important anthropological debates about such topics as ethical life, radical change, the ways people live in time, agency, gift giving, and the nature of humanity. The result is both a major reconsideration of important aspects of anthropological theory through theological categories and a series of careful readings of influential theologians such as Moltmann, Pannenberg, Jüngel, and Dalferth informed by rich ethnographic accounts of the lives of Christians from around the world. In conclusion, Robbins draws on contemporary discussions of secularism to interrogate the secular foundations of anthropology and suggests that the differences between anthropology and theology surrounding this topic can provide a foundation for transformative dialogue between them, rather than being an obstacle to it. Written as a work of interdisciplinary anthropological theorizing, this book also offers theologians an introduction to some of the most important ground covered by burgeoning field of the anthropology of Christianity while guiding anthropologists into core areas of theological discussion. Although theoretically ambitious, the book is clearly argued throughout and written to be accessible to all readers in the social sciences, theology, and religious studies interested in the place of religion in social life and human experience.

Theories of Primitive Religion

Author : Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Theories of Primitive Religion written by Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p.57-68; Religious beliefs of Aborigines - quotes Durkheims theory.

Mental Culture

Author : Dimitris Xygalatas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317546091
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Mental Culture written by Dimitris Xygalatas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the set of human beliefs and behaviours that we call "religion" such a widespread feature of all known human societies, past and present, and why are there so many forms of religiosity found throughout history and culture? "Mental Culture" brings together an international range of scholars - from Anthropology, History, Psychology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies - to answer these questions. Connecting classical theories and approaches with the newly established field of the Cognitive Science of Religion, the aim of "Mental Culture" is to provide scholars and students of religion with an overview of contemporary scientific approaches to religion while tracing their intellectual development to some of the great thinkers of the past.

Theory of Social Involvement

Author : Sunday A. Aigbe
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761865292
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Theory of Social Involvement written by Sunday A. Aigbe and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory of Social Involvement examines the dynamic interplay between church, state, and society. Sunday A. Aigbe considers the Christian factor as it relates to the sociopolitical responsibility and development in Nigeria and identifies ways in which Christianity can serve as an agent of change and promote unity within Nigeria.

Symbol and Theory

Author : John Skorupski
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symbol and Theory written by John Skorupski and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice

Author : Catherine Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199760381
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice written by Catherine Bell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ritual studies today figures as a central element of religious discourse for many scholars around the world. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice, Catherine Bell's sweeping and seminal work on the subject, helped legitimize the field. In this volume, Bell re-examines the issues, methods, and ramifications of our interest in ritual by concentrating on anthropology, sociology, and the history of religions. Now with a new foreword by Diane Jonte-Pace, Bell's work is a must-read for understanding the evolution of the field of ritual studies and its current state.

Modes of Religiosity

Author : Harvey Whitehouse
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759106154
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Modes of Religiosity written by Harvey Whitehouse and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religions--whatever else they may be--are configurations of cultural information reproduced across space and time. Beginning with this seemingly obvious fact of religious transmission, Harvey Whitehouse goes on to construct a testable theory of how religions are created, passed on, and changed. At the center of his theory are two divergent 'modes of religiosity: ' the imagistic and the doctrinal. Drawing from recent advances in cognitive science, Whitehouse's theory shows how religions tend to coalesce around one of these two poles depending on how religious behaviors are remembered. In the 'imagistic mode, ' rituals have a lasting impact on people's minds, haunting not only our memories but influencing the way we ruminate on religious topics. These psychological features are linked to the scale and structure of religious communities, fostering small, exclusive, and ideologically heterogeneous ritual groupings or factions. In the 'doctrinal mode', on the other hand, religious knowledge is primarily spread through intensive and repetitive teaching; religious communities are contrastingly large, inclusive, and centrally regulated. While these tendencies have long been recognized in the history of the study of religion, the modes of religiosity theory is unique in that it explains why these tendencies exist. More importantly, Whitehouse does not give the final word, but invites us to join a series of collaborative networks among anthropologists, historians, archaeologists, and psychologists, currently trying to falsify, confirm, or refine the theory. Are you tired of the flood of descriptions and interpretations of religions which offer no clear strategy for evaluation, comparison, and testing? Modes of Religiosity can provide you with a new way to think when you think about religion.