Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality Paperback: 1984 (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures) - Softcover

Tambiah, Stanley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521376319 ISBN 13: 9780521376310

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Inhaltsangabe

In the Western tradition, the boundaries between magic, science and religion have been continually contested. In this straightforward text, Professor Tambiah shows that modern anthropological theorists drew upon the classical sources but introduced new, ethnographic case materials.

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"...this book will be of immense benefit to all those involved in the study of the mental and cultural life of humankind." Journal of the American Academy of Religion

"This enormously erudite but engaging study offers a tough, critical, and morally sensitive perspective on the history of central issues in anthropological theory. More than either a theoretical manifesto or a philosophical disquisition, it makes the anthropological project and the history of ideas mutually relevant to a degree rarely achieved before now." Choice

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Most anthropologists who have attempted to demarcate and contrast magic, science and religion as cross-cultural categories appear to have been unaware of the rich and long intellectual history of Western thought which framed their own specialized writings. In this book, Professor Tambiah reexamines magic, science and religion within the framework of this history, including the Judaic religion, early Greek science, Renaissance philosophy, the Protestant Reformation, and the European scientific revolution in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0521376319
• ISBN 13: 9780521376310
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200