The Anthropology of Western Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780739195833)

The world's "great" religions depend on traditions of serious scholarship, dedicated to preserving their key texts but also to understanding them and, therefore, to debating what understanding itself is and how best to do it. They also have important public missions of many kinds, and their ideas and organizations influence many other important institutions, including government, law, education, and kinship. The Anthropology of Western Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies is a comparative survey of the world's major religious traditions as professional enterprises and, often, as social movements. Documenting the principle ideas behind Western religious traditions from an anthropological perspective, Murray J. Leaf demonstrates how these ideas have been used in building internal organizations that mobilize or fail to mobilize external support.

Author: Murray J. Leaf
ISBN-10: 0739195832
ISBN-13: 9780739195833
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 11/09/2015
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.80d