Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 304 pages
- Published by: Allyn & Bacon
- Edition: 3rd Edition July 2, 2004
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0205418147
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0205418145
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.9 x 0.6 inches
- Weighs: 1 pounds
Back Cover Copy
This widely used textbook offers a unique perspective on how people engage in everyday religious practices, such as prayer, sacrifice, pilgrimage, and dress, as well as investigates major issues of gender, nation-states, and laws with respect to religion. Highlights of the Third Edition - Chapter 1, “Studying Religion through Practice” brings the entire volume up to date by relating the approach taken in the text to post-9/11 concerns.
- A new Chapter 2, “Social Theory in the Anthropology of Religion,” considers the role of social theory in shaping the study of religion through an examination of the contemporary importance of work by Tylor, Durkheim, Marx, Weber, Freud, and more recent theorists.
- Chapters 3 and 4 from the Second Edition have been combined into a single chapter-Chapter 4, “Rituals and the Shaping of Emotions.”
- Chapter 6, “Patterns, Powers, and the Self” includes new sections on sports magic and new religions in the United States including Wicca or modern witchcraft.
- An entirely new Chapter 14, “Religion, Violence, and War,” looks at the role that religious beliefs and organizations play in promoting violence and war.
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Reader Reviews
This review is from: Religions in Practice: An Approach to the Anthropology of Religion (Paperback)
John Bowen, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, wrote this as a college textbook for anthropology of religion. For this it is excellent. It is also really good for lay readers looking for an introduction to this field. It includes a review of religious studies theories from Hegel and Edward Tylor to Clifford Geertz. It includes examples from many religious traditions commonly studied--Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, Umbanda, Native American traditions, Cargo cults, Japanese New Religions, Quakers, Mormonism, Hinduism; a good breadth indeed. His chapters are: 1) Elements and Theories of Religion; 2) Doctrine and Practice in Tension; 3) Transitions in Life and Death; 4) Extending Our Powers: "Magic" and Healing; 5) Explaining Misfortune: Witchcraft and Sorcery; 6) Sacrifice Contested; 7) Prohibitions and Boundaries; 8) Objects, Images, and Worship; 9) Sacred Speech and Divine Power; 10) Places and Pilgrims; 11) Religious Authority and Religious Movements; 12) The Place of Religions in Modern Nation-States. The book is expensive, so unless you find it used or really want it, I wouldn't buy it. But I really wanted it, and wasn't at all disappointed.
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