The Anthropology of Eastern Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and ConstituenciesLexington Books, 21 mai 2014 - 194 pages 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. |
Table des matières
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Vedas and Vedanta | 27 |
Jain and Buddhist Traditions | 59 |
Hindu Traditions | 83 |
Chinas Main Religions | 117 |
Japans Religious Traditions | 147 |
Conclusion | 163 |
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About the Author | 177 |
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