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Feature Summary-
Offers students a systematic examination of the basic concepts used by anthropologists for defining religion and its subsystems of religious ideology, religious social organization, religious technology, and religious behavior.
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It examines the historic issues that have been involved in the search for a cross-culturally valid definition of religion and places religion in the broader context of expressive culture, highlighting the similarities and differences between religion, art, play and other forms of expressive culture.
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Extended narrative examples illustrate the theoretical and analytic discussions in the text, expose students to a variety of different religions, and provide real-world examples of the concepts of each chapter.
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An integrated student study guide (self-test materials) at the end of each chapter allows students to evaluate their own mastery of each chapter, determine what they need to review further, and prepare for course tests.
The text is copiously illustrated with ethnographic examples from both western and nonwestern religions.
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2003 McGraw-Hill Higher Education