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Anthropology of Western Religions

Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies
  • ISBN-13: 9780739195833
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
  • By Murray J. Leaf
  • Price: AUD $130.00
  • Stock: 1 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 14/01/2016
  • Format: Paperback (230.00mm X 155.00mm) 286 pages Weight: 430g
  • 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. The Anthropology of Western 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 Western 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.
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2: Backgrounds to the West Chapter 3: Judaism Chapter 4: Early Christianity Chapter 5: Islam Chapter 6: Later Christianity Chapter 7: Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author
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