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Anthropology of Religion
A survey of the current anthropological study of religion. Looks at the relationship among science, religion, magic, and anthropology; ritual in Africa, India, Japan, native North America, and the European US; the traditions of Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Catholicism; and such aspects of shamanism as altered states of consciousness, bioenegetic structural theory, the origin of an illusion and the sacred integration of the cultural self. c. Book News Inc.
The Anthropology of Religious Conversion
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Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions
Contains one hundred and forty-five articles by seventy-two scholars from thirteen nations discussing the place of religion in African and African-American societies and its impact on society in general.
Random House Word Menu
Lists and defines words and terms in over seven hundred subject areas including nature, science and technology, domestic life, arts, language, and institutions.
Anthropology of Religion
Chapters by expert contributors overview the most significant topics and trends in the anthropology of religion.
Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions
This important new reference covers African and African-American religion in sub-Saharan Africa, North America, South America, and the Caribbean, and provides vital insights into its growing worldwide influence in Europe, Asia and the South Pacific. Entries encompass individuals, concepts, specific religions, religious movements and churches, and include: Akan, Aladura, Azusa Street Mission, Black theology, candomble, Dominican vodun, the Harrist movement, Jamaa, Macumba, Mission des Noirs, Mt. Sinai Holy Church, Nuer, Pentecostalism, Pocomania, Santería, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Unification Church, Yoruba, and many more. Photos, illustrations, and source material round out the package.
Selected Readings in the Anthropology of Religion
Brings together in one volume a number of key theoretical and methodological advances in the anthropological study of religion. Chapters cover important topics not ordinarily included in books dealing with the anthropology of religion (e.g., bipedalism, the study of alcohol, film and video images, notions of religious agency). In addition, this collection is intended to build bridges between anthropologists of religion and religious studies scholars. Over the last four decades, anthropologists have grappled with the dialectical relationship between the examination of cultures from the emic, or insider, perspective, and the etic, or outsider, perspective. Nowhere is this creative tension more...
Random House Word Menu
A revolutionary tool that has changed the way we use words, the Random House Word Menu functions in four ways: it is a thesaurus with definitions; a dictionary divided into word categories; a reverse dictionary; and a collection of glossaries. A writer's right hand and a browser's delight, this reference contains thousands of entries in over 800 categories.
