The Anthropology of Eastern Religions

Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Eastern Religions, General Eastern Religions, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology, Marriage & Family, Anthropology
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Author: Murray J. Leaf ISBN: 9780739192412
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: May 21, 2014
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Murray J. Leaf
ISBN: 9780739192412
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: May 21, 2014
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

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. Anthropology of Eastern Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies is a comparative survey of the world’s major religious traditions as professional enterprises and, often, as social movements. Documenting the principle ideas behind eastern religious traditions from an anthropological perspective, Murray J. Leaf demonstrates how these ideas have been used in building internal organizations that mobilize or fail to mobilize external support.

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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. Anthropology of Eastern Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies is a comparative survey of the world’s major religious traditions as professional enterprises and, often, as social movements. Documenting the principle ideas behind eastern religious traditions from an anthropological perspective, Murray J. Leaf demonstrates how these ideas have been used in building internal organizations that mobilize or fail to mobilize external support.

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