Anthropology of Religion: The Unity and Diversity of Religions - Softcover

Crapo, Richley H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072387238 ISBN 13: 9780072387230

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2002

Synopsis

This text offers an alternative to the case-driven approach that the sole use of a reader tends to foster. It provides students with ways of conceptualizing what religion is, what its social and psychological functions are, the nature of religious symbolism and religious behavior, and the organizational structure of religions. This text covers all the standard topics (e.g., ideology and symbolism, ritual and ceremony, organizational forms, and social and psychological functions of religion) as well as ones of more recent interest such as religion and gender, the psychology of religion, and pilgrimage.

About this title

About the Author:

Richley H. Crapo is a Professor of Anthropology at Utah State University. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Utah in 1970. He is the author of Cultural Anthropology: Understanding Ourselves and Others (5th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2001), and he has authored and co-authored several other books in subjects related to psychological anthropology and American Indian languages. His area of special interest is the human construction of systems of meaning, particularly in the arenas of personality, gender, and religion.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0072387238
• ISBN 13: 9780072387230
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336