MOMENTAN AUSVERKAUFT
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-100367320029
ISBN-139780367320027
eBay Product ID (ePID)13038296387
Product Key Features
Publication NameOrdered Universes
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2019
SubjectAnthropology / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science
AuthorMorton Klass
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight18.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Table Of ContentPreface -- At Play in the Sacred Grove -- The Noisome Bog -- The Definitional Daisy Chain -- The Problem with Supernatural -- An Operational Definition of Religion -- The Value of Values -- Assumptions, Beliefs, and Facts -- Exploring Explanation: Why Do People Die? -- Clerical Orders -- What Kind of Shaman Would You Want? -- Community and Conflict -- On the Other Side of the Forest -- The Incorporeal Dimension -- Divining the Divine -- Into the Land of Moriah -- A Myth Is As Good -- Wondrous Portals -- When Worldviews Collide -- The Modern Hosts of Heaven
SynopsisThis innovative introduction to the anthropological study of religion challenges traditional categories and assumptions, arguing that too many of them reflect ethnocentric perspectives long discarded by contemporary anthropologists. The continued use of such terms as ?supernatural? and ?cult? inescapably communicates that what is under study is not
