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The anthropology of eastern religions : ideas, organizations, and constituencies

By Leaf , Murray J

Book information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2014
ISBN
073919240X, 978-0-7391-9240-5, 9780739194904, 0739194909, 978-0-7391-9241-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
30 MB (30968471 bytes)
Pages
177\191
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

The world’s “great” religions depend on traditions of serious scholarship, dedicated to preserving their key texts but also to understanding them and, therefore, to debating what understanding itself is and how best to do it. They also have important public missions of many kinds, and their ideas and organizations influence many other important institutions, including government, law, education, and kinship. Anthropology of Eastern Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies is a comparative survey of the world’s major religious traditions as professional enterprises and, often, as social movements. Documenting the principle ideas behind eastern religious traditions from an anthropological perspective, Murray J. Leaf demonstrates how these ideas have been used in building internal organizations that mobilize or fail to mobilize external support.

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