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The Anthropology of Eastern Religions
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Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies
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Artikel-Nr:
9780739192412
Veröffentl:
2014
Seiten:
194
Autor:
Murray J. Leaf
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
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
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