基本説明
Brings together in one volume a number of key theoretical and methodological advances in the anthropological study of religion.
Full Description
Brings together in one volume a number of key theoretical and methodological advances in the anthropological study of religion. Chapters cover important topics not ordinarily included in books dealing with the anthropology of religion (e.g., bipedalism, the study of alcohol, film and video images, notions of religious agency). In addition, this collection is intended to build bridges between anthropologists of religion and religious studies scholars.
Over the last four decades, anthropologists have grappled with the dialectical relationship between the examination of cultures from the emic, or insider, perspective, and the etic, or outsider, perspective. Nowhere is this creative tension more evident than in the anthropological study of religion. In this volume, anthropologists and religious studies scholars come to terms not only with a landscape that has shifted fundamentally, but a landscape that is still shifting.
Essays in this collection raise new and important issues for the anthropological study of religion in new and important ways. In intensely personal essays, a number of contributors address two fundamental concerns in the study of religion: (1) how should anthropologists deal with the beliefs and practices of others?, and (2) how should anthropologists deal with their own religious backgrounds and beliefs as these may affect their understanding of the beliefs and practices of others? A partial resolution to both questions is necessary before the anthropological study of religion can advance to a higher level.
Contents
Introduction by Stephen D. Glazier and Charles A. Flowerday Theoretical Essays Clifford Geertz's Interpretive Approach to Religion by Robert A. Segal Answers and Questions: Evans-Pritchard on Nuer Religion by John W. Burton The Biolinkage of Religion and Bipedalism by Mark Gruber Defining Religion by James M. Donovan Agency and Religious Agency in Cognitive Perspective by E. Thomas Lawson Methodological Essays Fear of Religious Emotion versus the Need for Research That Encompasses the Fullest Experiences by Edith L. B. Turner Dilemmas of Ethnographic Research on Sectarian Movements: A Confessional Account by Hans A. Baer Alcohol in the Study of Anthropology and Religion by Dwight B. Heath Images of the Sacred, Embodiments of the Other: Representing Religious Experience on Film and Video by John P. Homiak The Use of Visual Media in the Study of Religious Belief and Practice by Christine Greenway and Todd T. Lewis Index About the Editors and Contributors
