Ritual and Memory
Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion
Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers a skeptical pause. In Ritual and Memory, however, a wide range of ethnographers grapple critically with Harvey Whitehouse's theory of two divergent modes of religiosity. Although these contributors differ in their methods, their areas of fieldwork, and their predisposition towards Whitehouse's cognitively-based approach, they all help evaluate and re…
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Weitere Autoren: Laidlaw, James (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7591-1544-6
- EAN: 9780759115446
- Produktnummer: 22948953
- Verlag: AltaMira Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 230 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 950 KB
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Edited by Harvey Whitehouse and James Laidlaw
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