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Anthropology of Eastern Religions

Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies
  • ISBN-13: 9780739194904
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
  • By Murray J. Leaf
  • Price: AUD $113.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/05/2016
  • Format: Paperback 194 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Anthropology [JHM]
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The world's "great" religions depend on traditions of serious scholarship, dedicated to preserving their key texts but also to understanding them and, therefore, to debating what understanding itself is and how best to do it. They also have important public missions of many kinds, and their ideas and organizations influence many other important institutions, including government, law, education, and kinship. Anthropology of Eastern Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies is a comparative survey of the world's major religious traditions as professional enterprises and, often, as social movements. Documenting the principle ideas behind eastern religious traditions from an anthropological perspective, Murray J. Leaf demonstrates how these ideas have been used in building internal organizations that mobilize or fail to mobilize external support.
Preface Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Vedas and Vedanta Chapter 3: Jain and Buddhist Traditions Chapter 4: Hindu Traditions Chapter 5: China's Main Religions Chapter 6: Japan's Religions Traditions Chapter 7: Conclusion Bibliography Index
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