A simple summary of anthropological views of religious ritual suggests these rituals serve three functions (Segal, 1983): 0 Religious ritual applies beliefs. These beliefs are about the cosmos (how God and individuals relate) as well as ...
T. R. Martland , “ When Is Religion Art ? When It Is a Jar , ” in Diane Apostolos - Cappadona , ed . , Art , Creativity , and the Sacred : An Anthology in Religion and Art ( New York : Crossroad , 1984 ) , p . 259 . 11.
What is this thing, religion, which has supposedly been the cause of bloodshed and warring for centuries? What is 'God' and do we need 'Him' in our modern world? Karen Armstrong, looks at these questions
An analysis encompassing all the major beliefs. From prehistoric religion to Waco. Examines the worship, practices, gods, prophets, leading figures, festivals, myths and misconceptions of every faith.
Religion: An Anthropological View
D'Arcy, Eric Human Acts (Oxford, 1963). D'hert, Ignace Wittgenstein's Relevance for Theology (Berne and Frankfurt/M. 1975). ... (2) “Ian Ramsey on Talk about God', Religious Studies (1971) 125–40, 213–26. Evans-Pritchard, E. E. 'The ...
2.1.5.3 The World Christian Encyclopedia [B.572], published by Oxford University Press in 1982 under the editorial direction of David Barrett of Nairobi, is a quite monumental work which incorporates a wealth of statistics derived from ...
Kroeber , Alfred L. ( 1979 ) ' Totem and Taboo : An Ethnologic Psychoanalysis ' in Lessa , W. A. , Vogt , E. Z. ( eds ) Reader in Comparative Religion , Harper and Row : New York , pp . 19-24 . Kunin , Seth D. ( 1998 ) God's Place in ...
1 On the other hand , Richard Henry Dana defined the insincere agnostic this way : “ A man who doesn't know if there is a God or not , doesn't know whether he has a soul or not , doesn't know whether there is a future life or not ...
William Bernhardt voices his denial as follows : Historically . . . religious behavior was essentially metatechnological . Persons sought for supernatural or magical aid in their attempts to conserve their values .
Swanson , Guy E. Religion and Regime : A Sociological Account of the Reformation . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1967. Swanson analyzes and characterizes the forms of government in some forty European states in the ...
The first is called the logical problem of evil, and was famously defended by the British philosopher J.L. Mackie.2 Mackie claimed that the existence of an all-good and all-powerful God is logically inconsistent with the existence of ...
Religion
Religion ¿ The Defamer of God brings together two perilous topics of conversation ¿ organized religion and politics ¿ and amalgamates them into a timely referenced, scholarly researched, and topically...
Composed of twenty-five thematic chapters, this volume reexamines the supernatural in the study of religion for the next generation of students and scholars.
RELIGION IN THE AMERICAS As with African traditional religion, the recovery of precontact Native American beliefs present challenges for the scholar. Clendinnen 1991 explores Aztec belief and practice, while Conrad and Demarest 1984 ...
Religion: A Very Short Introduction offers a concise non-partisan overview of religion's long history and its complicated role in the world today.
The new edition has been fully revised and updated, and includes new discussions of: the study of religion and culture in the twenty-first century texts, films and rituals cognitive approaches to religion globalization and multiculturalism ...
Schopenhauer is one of the few philosophers who can be generally understood without a commentary.
This book advances an innovative theory of religion that goes beyond the problematic theoretical paradigms of the past.