TY  - BOOK
AU  - H. Sidky
PY  - 2015
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453914861
TI  - Religion
T2  - An Anthropological Perspective
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-1486-1
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051654
N2  - Religion: An Anthropological Perspective provides a critical view of religion focusing upon important but overlooked topics such as religion, cognition, and prehistory; science, rationality, and religion; altered states of consciousness, entheogens and religious experience; religion and the paranormal; magic and divination; religion and ecology; fundamentalism; and religion and violence. In addition, this book offers a unique and concise coverage of traditional topics of the anthropology of religion such as shamanism and witchcraft (past and present), ritual, myth, religious symbols, and revitalization movements. A vast range of findings from ethnography, ethnology, cultural anthropology, archaeology, prehistory, history, and cognitive science are brought to bear on the subject. Written in clear jargon-free prose, this book provides an accessible and comprehensive yet critical view of the anthropology of religion both for graduate and undergraduate students and general audiences. Its scope and critical scientific orientation sets Religion: An Anthropological Perspective apart from all other treatments of the subject.
KW  - Fundamentalism, Shamanism, Witchcraft, Myth, Paranormal
LA  - English
ER  -