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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Leaf, Murray J. (1939-....)
Titre(s) : The anthropology of eastern religions [Texte imprimé] : ideas, organizations, and constituencies / Murray J. Leaf
Publication : Lanham, Maryland : Lexington books, [2014]
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xi, 177 pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Comprend : Related approaches ; Vedas and Vedanta ; Jain and Buddhist Traditions ; Hindu
Traditions ; China's Main Religions ; Japan's Religious Traditions ; Religion and
social development.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
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. This work is a comparative
survey of the world's major religious traditions as professional enterprises and,
often, as social movements. Documenting the principle ideas behind Western religious
traditions from an anthropological perspective, the author demonstrates how these
ideas have been used in building internal organizations that mobilize or fail to mobilize
external support. -- From publisher's website
Sujet(s) : Sociologie religieuse -- Asie
Religion -- Asie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780739192405 (cloth). - ISBN 073919240X (cloth). - ISBN 9780739194904 (paper).
- ISBN 0739194909 (paper). - ISBN 9780739192412 (erroné) (electronic)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb438280029
Notice n° :
FRBNF43828002
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