"This volume provides an ethnographic description of Muslim merit-making rhetoric, rituals and rationales in Thailand's Malay far-south. This study is situated in Cabetigo, one of Pattani's oldest and most important Malay communities that has been subjected to a range of Thai an…
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Anthropologist and spiritual explorer Felicitas Goodman offers a "unified field theory" of religion as human behavior. She examines ritual, the religious trance, alternate reality, ethics and moral code, and the named category designating religion.
In this cross-disciplinary exploration of comparative religion, Felicitas Goodman offers a "unified field theory" of religion as human behavior. She examines ritual, the religious trance, alternate reality, ethics and moral code, and the named category designating religion.
"How might we transform a folk category - in this case religion - into an analytical category suitable for cross-cultural research? In this volume, the author addresses that question. He critically explores various approaches to the problem of conceptualizing religion, particula…
Introduction : science, religion and forms of life / Carles Salazar -- Maturationally natural cognition impedes professional science and facilitates popular religion / Robert N. McCauley -- Scientific vs. religious 'knowledge' in evolutionary perspective / Michael Blume -- Magic…
