Learning Religion: Anthropological Approaches (Methodology & History in Anthropology)

ISBN 10: 1845453743 ISBN 13: 9781845453749

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

As we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study. Yet, how people become religious is still poorly studied. This volume gathers some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to offer a new perspective for the study of religion, one that examines the works of transmission and innovation through the prism of learning. They argue that religious culture is socially and dynamically constructed by agents who are not mere passive recipients but engaged in active learning processes. Finding a middle way between the social and the cognitive, they see learning religions not as a mechanism of "downloading" but also as a social process with its relational dimension.

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Ramon Sarró is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon. He read anthropology in London (PhD 1999). In 2000-2002 he was the Ioma Evans-Pritchard Junior Research Fellow at Saint Anne's College, Oxford. His publications include Surviving Iconoclasm: Religious and Political Transformation on the Upper Guinea Coast (Edinburgh University Press, 2006).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1845453743
• ISBN 13: 9781845453749
• Einband: Bibliothekseinband
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
• Herausgeber: Berliner David, Sarró Ramon
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: GPSR Kontakt; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Deutschland