Work Useful to Religion and the Humanities: A History of the Comparative Method in the Study of Religion from Las Casas to Tylor (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781498253444)

In many ways, the method of comparison in the study of religion is connected to European expansion and empire building. This work explores the early modern origins of the comparative method for the cross-cultural study of religion, beginning with its roots in the earliest missionary contact in the Spanish conquest and concluding with the Victorian anthropologists of the British Empire. Ammon explores the development of the comparative method in religion from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, approaching the history of comparison by tracing its development from the first moments of contact with the New World through the recognized origin of the discipline of anthropology. This work delineates the comparative method from Bartolome de Las Casas to Edward Burnett Tylor, exploring a piece of the story we can tell about the development of the comparative methods and religious transformation in the disciplines of anthropology, ethnology, and comparative religion.

Author: Laura Ammon
ISBN-10: 149825344X
ISBN-13: 9781498253444
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Language: English
Published: 10/09/2012
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d