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| ISBN: | 9780826425270
0826425275
0304336815
9780304336814
0304336823
9780304336821
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index.
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| Summary: | This text traces the growth and development of two related disciplines, anthropology and the study of religions. Locating these disciplines within the intellectual climate of the 19th century, the study considers the contributions of scholars such as James George Frazer, F. Max Muller, Emile Durkheim, Mary Douglas and Clifford Geertz, within an historical framework. The author argues that both anthropologists and students of religion have abandoned an objective approach in favour of personal engagement with their subjects, replacing observation with conversation, monologue with dialogue, a tex.
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| Other form: | Print version: Bennett, Clinton. In search of the sacred. London ; New York : Cassell, 1996
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