# Religion and Anthropology

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- Authors: [Brian Morris](https://www.bookquiver.com/brian-morris)
- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN: 978-05-2161-779-6
- Pages: 362
- Published: 2012-08-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A sequel and update of the pioneering text Anthropological Studies of Religion, this book provides a readable, comprehensive and critical introduction to the extensive anthropological literature on religion that has been produced over the past forty years. It focuses on well-known, substantive ethnographic studies, specifically those which have embraced the dual heritage of social anthropology in combining the interpretive understanding of religious phenomena, with a social scientific perspective that situates religion within its wider socio-historical context. Breaking away from the usual thematic approach and taking a comparative perspective, this engaging book emphasizes that religion is essentially a social institution, and is ill-understood if seen simply as an ideological or symbolic system.