The Anthropology of Religion: And the Worlds of the Independent Thinkers

ISBN-13: 9781032303154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 200 str.

Peter Metcalf

Opis

This book describes how anthropologists in the twentieth century went about documenting the religions of those independent peoples who still lived beyond the frontiers of the global economy and the world religions.

Spis treści

Introducing the Independent Thinkers  1. "Such Turbulent Human Material"  2. The Mirror of Modernity  3. The Phenomenon of the Golden Bough  4. If I was a Horse  5. The Essence of Religion  6. On the Uselessness of Ritual  7. Einstein in The Outback  8. Real Knowledge of Real Worlds  9. Integrity of Science and Religion  10. Laying Tylor’s Ghost  11. Exorcising Freud  12. What’s Only Natural  13. Beginnings, Middles, and Ends  14. No One Believes in Things That Aren’t There  15. Being Reasonable  16. Invitations You Can’t Refuse  17. Nature Does Not Work Independently Of Man  18. Findings  Postscript: Religion and Evolution