{"product_id":"religion-9781433129179","title":"Religion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReligion: An Anthropological Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e provides a critical view of religion focusing upon important but overlooked topics such as religion, cognition, and prehistory; science, rationality, and religion; altered states of consciousness, entheogens and religious experience; religion and the paranormal; magic and divination; religion and ecology; fundamentalism; and religion and violence. In addition, this book offers a unique and concise coverage of traditional topics of the anthropology of religion such as shamanism and witchcraft (past and present), ritual, myth, religious symbols, and revitalization movements. A vast range of findings from ethnography, ethnology, cultural anthropology, archaeology, prehistory, history, and cognitive science are brought to bear on the subject. Written in clear jargon-free prose, this book provides an accessible and comprehensive yet critical view of the anthropology of religion both for graduate and undergraduate students and general audiences\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Anthropology and Religion – Religion, Cognition, and Prehistory – Shamanism – Altered States of Consciousness and Religion – Entheogens and Religious Experience – Witchcraft: Evil in Human Form – Magic and Divination – Religion and the Paranormal – Religion: Organization and Evolutionary Patterns – Religion and Ecology – Ritual: The Practical Dimension of Religion – Myth: The Narrative Dimension of Religion – Symbols: The Representational Dimension of Religion – Revitalization Movements and the Origins of Religion – Fundamentalism – Religion and Violence.","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039583240535,"sku":"9781433129179","price":67.41,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433129179.jpg?v=1750944170","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/religion-9781433129179","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}