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The Anthropology of Western Religions
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Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies
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Artikel-Nr:
9780739192399
Veröffentl:
2014
Seiten:
286
Autor:
Murray J. Leaf
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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. Leaf documents a wide range of cultural and social phenomena and the ways in which they merge, ultimately proposing an anthropological method of promoting cross-cultural understanding that stems from these intersections.
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
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