The Oxford Handbook of the Anthropology of Religion
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 February 2026
- ISBN 9780199676217
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages736 pages
- Size 252x178x44 mm
- Weight 1397 g
- Language English 681
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Short description:
A comprehensive Handbook covering past, present, and likely future developments in the anthropology of religion, bringing together leading specialists to cover different regions of the world, classic and emerging themes, and some of the main methodological and theoretical approaches taken by anthropologists over the past century.
MoreLong description:
Anthropologists of religion study themes central to the understanding of humanity, such as the power of ritual, the authority of language, and the exemplary character of myth. This Handbook brings together leading specialists to explain the historical and intellectual background to how anthropologists approach religion, and to show why its study remains a dynamic means of reflecting on contemporary life around the globe. Each chapter combines overviews of a given topic with original observations, and the Handbook is structured for ease of teaching. Five sections guide the reader on different routes through the field, helping to provoke further questions on historical and intellectual approaches; 'Indigenous' religions; 'World' religions; enduring themes; and emergent themes. The aim is to help students and researchers recognize how and why the field has been organized in certain ways, but also to make them feel confident enough to challenge its assumptions and to consider directions it might go in the future. This Handbook provides an excellent introduction to some of the most important elements of anthropology, including the discipline's emphases on comparison, embodied experience, and scepticism toward taken-for-granted categories. It also shows how religious practices remain entangled with some of the pressing themes and questions of our time, including how we perceive and treat our environment, ways in which we deal with religious and cultural differences, and the religious dimensions of virtual and mediated means of communication.
MoreTable of Contents:
Part I. Approaches
The French Tradition
Victorian Anthropologies of Religion: Their Puzzles and Problems
Cultural Analysis
Linguistic Approaches
Narrative Analysis
Phenomenological Analysis
Approaches through Materiality
Cognitive Approaches
Insiders and Outsiders in the Anthropology of Christianity
Part II. The Study of "Indigenous Religions"
Person, Cosmos, and Power in the Anthropology of Religions in Africa: A Critical, Holistic Approach to Theory and Ethnography
An Unstable "Religion": Shamanism, Perspectivism, and 'Perpetual Disequilibrium' in Amazonia
An Anthropology of Religion and Modernity across Eastern Asia
Religions of Aboriginal Australia
The Study of Indigenous Religions in North America
Part III. "World Religions" Revisited
The Anthropology of Buddhism
Living with Polytropy and Hierarchy: The Anthropology of Hinduism
Jainism
Islam
Judaism, Jews, and the Anthropology of Jewish Life
Arguing with Christianity: Pentecostalism as a Challenge for Anthropology
Part IV. Enduring Themes
Magic and Witchcraft: Changing Anthropological Interpretations
Ritual: Revivals and Excursions
Belief
The Secular and the Sacred
Religion and Science
Religion and Medicine: Productive Contrasts and Their Limitations
Morality
Spirit Possession and Religion: Excavating the Unexpected in an Uneasy Relationship
Shamanism
Religion and Economies: Four Cultural Articulations and Their Insights
Gender and Religion
Myth
Charisma
Millenarianism
Part V. Emergent Themes
Religion and the Public Sphere
Virtual Religion
Religion, Globalization, and Universalism
Religion and Media (Human Communication, with a Loop in it)
Emotion in the Anthropology of Religion
Plural Entirety: Anthropology, Cosmology, and the Unnatural Study of Human Worlds
