| Anthropology of Religion |
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| Religion is an important part of almost every culture (although not of the lives of every person in every culture). Anthropology studies religion as a cultural phenomenon--not judging whether any religious belief or practice is "true" but what is means to that society and how it fits with other aspects of the society. |
| Guidelines for Class Presentation and Research Projects Selected Course Topics: Field statement on anthropology of religion and reading list Definitions and Theories Primitive Religion--General Levi-Strauss' Structural Study of Myth Structural Analysis in Language and Anthropology Summary of Levi-Strauss' theory Some comments on ritual--Leach, Rappaport, Skorupski Notes on World Religions Religion and Violence: A Bibliography Notes on Sacrifice Notes on Fundamentalism New Religious Movements The Religious Movements Project American Academy of Religion NRM Group Center for Study on New Religions Cultwatch (Institute for Study of American Religion) |
| What is cultural relativism? |