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Learning religion: anthropological approaches

By Ramon Sarro , David Berliner

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2007
ISBN
9781845455941, 9781845453749, 9781782382133
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
631 MB (661968066 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
248\248
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-13 04:47:32

Description

As we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study. Yet, how people become religious is still poorly studied. This volume gathers some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to offer a new perspective for the study of religion, one that examines the works of transmission and innovation through the prism of learning. They argue that religious culture is socially and dynamically constructed by agents who are not mere passive recipients but engaged in active learning processes. Finding a middle way between the social and the cognitive, they see learning religions not as a mechanism of “downloading” but also as a social process with its relational dimension.

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