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anthropological study of religious systems
anthropology of belief
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Black Christ
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Christianity Idealization
comparative religious studies
Counter-clockwise
cultural symbolism
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faith and scepticism
Fustel De Coulanges
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Godfrey Lienhardt
Gush Emunim
Hantu
Holy Man
Human Suffering
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Kelantan Malay
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Malay Magic
Master Fishermen
medium
mediumship
Parched Rice
Patient's Illness
Pepper Root
religious
Religious Systems
ritual analysis
sacrifice and offering practices
Sea Spirits
Shadow Play
spirit
Spirit Medium
Spirit Medium Cults
spiritual
Spiritual Aroma
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Ultimate Transcendent Reality
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Product details
- ISBN 9780415128971
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 1995
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Religion: A Humanist Interpretation represents a lifetime's work on the anthropology of religion from a rather unusual personal viewpoint. Raymond Firth treats religion as a human art, capable of great intellectual and artistic achievements, but also of complex manipulation to serve the human interests of those who believe in it and operate it. His study is comparative, drawing material from a range of religions around the world. Its findings are a challenge to established beliefs.
This anthropological approach to the study of religion covers themes ranging from; religious belief and personal adjustment; gods and God; offering and sacrifice;religion and politics; Malay magic and spirit mediumship; truth and paradox in religion.
Professor Sir Raymond Firth was a pupil and colleague of Malinowski at the London School of Economics and is internationally regarded as one of this century's great anthropologists. His books include Human Types (1938), Malay Fishermen (1946), Symbols Public and Private (1973) and range from We, the Tikopia (1936) to Tikopia Songs (1991).
