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When anthropologists study religion, it can be helpful to consider both of these definitions because religion includes such varied human constructs and experiences as social structures, sets of beliefs, a feeling of awe, and an aura of mystery.
anthropology, and those preoccupied in general with the study of social life, that the material forms of life needed to be interpreted and seen as signs with significatory powers that were socially constructed.
Anthropologist Anthony F.C. Wallace defined religion as “A set of rituals, rationalized by myth, which mobilizes supernatural powers for the purpose of achieving or preventing transformations of state in man and nature”.
This article examines Geertz's well-known definition of religion, with its emphasis on meanings, and argues that it omits the crucial dimension of power, that it ignores the varying social conditions for the production of knowledge, and that its initial plausibility derives from the
20 lip 2015 · Religion: An Anthropological Perspective provides a critical view of religion focusing upon important but overlooked topics such as religion, cognition, and prehistory; science, rationality,...
Anthropologists have worked more and more in urban and Western contexts often associated with deritualization and secularization, and with decreased need for common rites of passage to define accession to social roles.
Define religion and explain its significance in human cultures. Summarize theories developed by anthropologists to explain the importance of supernatural beliefs in human communities.
