Ritual and Memory

Ritual and Memory
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Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9780759115446
ISBN-13 : 0759115443
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Book Synopsis Ritual and Memory by : Harvey Whitehouse

Download or read book Ritual and Memory written by Harvey Whitehouse and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004-08-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers a skeptical pause. In Ritual and Memory, however, a wide range of ethnographers grapple critically with Harvey Whitehouse's theory of two divergent modes of religiosity. Although these contributors differ in their methods, their areas of fieldwork, and their predisposition towards Whitehouse's cognitively-based approach, they all help evaluate and refine Whitehouse's theory and so contribute to a new comparative approach in the anthropology of religion.


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