Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Religion: American University Studies. Series 7: Theology and Religion, cartea 348

Autor H. Sidky
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 iul 2015
Provides a critical view of religion focusing upon important but overlooked topics such as religion, cognition, and prehistory. This book offers a coverage of traditional topics of the anthropology of religion such as shamanism and witchcraft, ritual, myth, religious symbols, and revitalization movements.
Citește tot Restrânge

Din seria American University Studies. Series 7: Theology and Religion

Preț: 62384 lei

Preț vechi: 81018 lei
-23% Nou

Puncte Express: 936

Preț estimativ în valută:
11039 12945$ 9695£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 12-26 februarie

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781433129179
ISBN-10: 1433129175
Pagini: 279
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Seriile American University Studies. Series 7: Theology and Religion, American University Studies


Cuprins

Contents: Anthropology and Religion ¿ Religion, Cognition, and Prehistory ¿ Shamanism ¿ Altered States of Consciousness and Religion ¿ Entheogens and Religious Experience ¿ Witchcraft: Evil in Human Form ¿ Magic and Divination ¿ Religion and the Paranormal ¿ Religion: Organization and Evolutionary Patterns ¿ Religion and Ecology ¿ Ritual: The Practical Dimension of Religion ¿ Myth: The Narrative Dimension of Religion ¿ Symbols: The Representational Dimension of Religion ¿ Revitalization Movements and the Origins of Religion ¿ Fundamentalism ¿ Religion and Violence.

Notă biografică

H. Sidky is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio. His research interests include the anthropology of religion, ecological anthropology, anthropological theory/history of anthropological thought, and scientific methods in anthropology. He has conducted ethnographic field research in Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, Nepal, Easter Island, central Australia, and among the Tibetan exile community in northern India. Dr. Sidky is the author of numerous books, including Haunted by the Archaic Shaman: Himalayan Jhakris and the Discourse on Shamanism (2008), Perspectives on Culture: A Critical Introduction to Theory in Cultural Anthropology (2004), Halfway to the Mountain: The Jirels of Eastern Nepal (2004), A Critique of Postmodern Anthropology: In Defense of Disciplinary Origins and Traditions (2003), The Greek Kingdom of Bactria: From Alexander to Eucratides the Great (2000), and Witchcraft, Lycanthropy, Drugs and Disease: An Anthropological Study of the European Witch-Persecutions (Lang, 1997).