Religion, anthropology, and cognitive science / edited by Harvey Whitehouse, James Laidlaw.

Contributor Whitehouse, Harvey.

Imprint:Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2007.

Descriptionxxiv, 286 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:Introduction / James Laidlaw & Harvey Whitehouse. Pt. 1. Core perspectives in the anthropology of religion. Anthropology and anthropomorphism in religion / Stewart Elliott Guthrie -- Durkheimian anthropology and religion: going in and out of each other's bodies / Maurice Bloch -- Malinowski and magical ritual / Jesper Sørensen -- How "natives" don't think: the apotheosis of overinterpretation / Jonathan A. Lanman. Pt. 2. Core topics in the anthropology of religion. Witchcraft and sorcery / Emma Cohen -- Ancestors and the afterlife / Rita Astuti -- Gods / Justin L. Barrett. Pt. 3. Social anthropology, religion, and the cognitive sciences. A well-disposed social anthropologist's problems with the 'cognitive science of religion' / James Laidlaw -- Towards and integration of ethnography, history, and the cognitive science of religion / Harvey Whitehouse.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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