Work Useful to Religion and the Humanities: A History of the Comparative Method in the Study of Religion from Las Casas to Tylor (Pickwick Studies in the History of Religions)

Ammon, Laura

ISBN 10: 149825344X / ISBN 13: 9781498253444

Published by Wipf and Stock, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Work Useful to Religion and the Humanities: A History of the Comparative Method in the Study of Religion from Las Casas to Tylor (Pickwick Studies in the History of Religions)
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 149825344X
• ISBN 13: 9781498253444
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Laura Ammon is Assistant Professor of Religion and Faculty Fellow at Appalachian State University, North Carolina.