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Ritual and Memory

Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion

Harvey Whitehouse editor James Laidlaw editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:AltaMira Press

Published:7th Jul '04

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Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers a skeptical pause. In Ritual and Memory, however, a wide range of ethnographers grapple critically with Harvey Whitehouse's theory of two divergent modes of religiosity. Although these contributors differ in their methods, their areas of fieldwork, and their predisposition towards Whitehouse's cognitively-based approach, they all help evaluate and refine Whitehouse's theory and so contribute to a new comparative approach in the anthropology of religion.

ISBN: 9780759106178

Dimensions: 220mm x 244mm x 16mm

Weight: 372g

230 pages