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In Search of the Sacred : Anthropology and the Study of Religions. Clinton Bennett

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Author: Clinton Bennett
Page Count: 228 pages
Published Date: 01 May 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Type: PDF
ISBN: 9780304336821
File Name: In.Search.of.the.Sacred.Anthropology.and.the.Study.of.Religions.pdf
Download Link: In Search of the Sacred Anthropology and the Study of Religions
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This book traces the birth and development of two related but distinct disciplines, anthropology and the study of religions. It begins by locating these within the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, and within this historical framwork goes on to discuss the contributions of such significant scholars as James George Frazer, F. Max Muller, Emile Durkheim, Mary Douglas and Clifford Geertz. The author argues that both anthropologists and students of religion have abandoned an impersonal, so-called 'objective'approach in favour of personal engagement with their subjects, replacing observation with conversation, monologue with dialogue and text-based wiwith a people-based approach. The book reveals how each discipline has influenced the other, both in terms of methodology and by the provision of data. It also explores the criticism levelled at both disciplines, that they have aided colonial domination of the developing world.

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