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Product Description: A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays that explore the variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the contemporary world and asks how to think about religion as a subject of anthropological inquiry...read more
By Michael Lambek (editor)

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9780470673324 | Blackwell Pub, October 28, 2013, cover price $206.95 | About this edition: A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays that explore the variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the contemporary world and asks how to think about religion as a subject of anthropological inquiry.

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9781119124993 | Reprint edition (Blackwell Pub, December 14, 2015), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays that explore the variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the contemporary world and asks how to think about religion as a subject of anthropological inquiry.

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By Joel Robbins (other contributor)

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9780814772591 | New York Univ Pr, October 9, 2015, cover price $89.00

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9780814772607 | New York Univ Pr, October 9, 2015, cover price $27.00

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Product Description: The central purpose of this book is to help change the terms of the debate on animism, a classic theme in anthropology. It combines some of the finest ethnographic material currently available (including firsthand research on the Chachi of Ecuador) with an unusually broad geographic scope (the Americas, Asia, and Africa)...read more

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9780415704953 | Routledge, September 17, 2013, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: The central purpose of this book is to help change the terms of the debate on animism, a classic theme in anthropology.

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9781138952904 | Routledge, September 16, 2015, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: The central purpose of this book is to help change the terms of the debate on animism, a classic theme in anthropology.

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Provides information on accommodations, dining, safaris, museums, and events

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9780415731249 | Routledge, March 24, 2015, cover price $115.00

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9780415731256 | Routledge, March 26, 2015, cover price $24.95
9780395755051, titled "Insight Guides South Africa" | Apa Productions, September 1, 1995, cover price $22.95 | also contains Insight Guides South Africa | About this edition: Provides information on accommodations, dining, safaris, museums, and events

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Discusses the history, people, and sights of Barcelona, and includes tips on travel, accommodations, shopping, and nightlife

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9780395755044, titled "Insight Guides Barcelona" | Apa Productions, September 1, 1995, cover price $21.95 | also contains Insight Guides Barcelona | About this edition: Discusses the history, people, and sights of Barcelona, and includes tips on travel, accommodations, shopping, and nightlife

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9781138024908 | 2 edition (Routledge, November 28, 2014), cover price $140.00 | also contains Introducing Anthropology of Religion: Culture to the Ultimate
9780415408950 | Routledge, September 13, 2007, cover price $125.00

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9781138024915 | 2 pap/psc edition (Routledge, November 20, 2014), cover price $44.95 | also contains Introducing Anthropology of Religion: Culture to the Ultimate

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9781138024908 | 2 edition (Routledge, November 28, 2014), cover price $140.00 | also contains Introducing Anthropology of Religion: Culture to the Ultimate

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9781138024915 | 2 pap/psc edition (Routledge, November 20, 2014), cover price $44.95 | also contains Introducing Anthropology of Religion: Culture to the Ultimate
9780415408967 | Routledge, August 16, 2007, cover price $42.95

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Product Description: According to Max Weber, charisma is opposed to bureaucratic order. This collection reveals the limits of that formula. The contributors show how charisma is a part of cultural frameworks while retaining its ecstatic character among American and Italian Catholics, Syrian Sufis, Taiwanese Buddhists, Hassidic Jews, and Amazonian shamans, among others...read more
By Charles Lindholm (editor)

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9781137377623 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 18, 2013, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: According to Max Weber, charisma is opposed to bureaucratic order.

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9780205961047 | 6 pck pap/ edition (Prentice Hall, June 6, 2013), cover price $66.07
9780205917662 | 6 edition (Taylor & Francis, May 30, 2013), cover price $57.95

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Product Description: While social scientists, beginning with Weber, envisioned a secularized world, religion today is forthrightly becoming a defining feature of life all around the globe. The complex connections between religion and politics, and the ways in which globalization shapes these processes, are central themes explored in this volume by leading scholars in the field of religion...read more
By Don Handelman (editor)

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9781845457716 | Berghahn Books, January 26, 2011, cover price $120.00

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9780857459046 | Reprint edition (Berghahn Books, October 1, 2012), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: While social scientists, beginning with Weber, envisioned a secularized world, religion today is forthrightly becoming a defining feature of life all around the globe.

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9780078034947 | 9 edition (McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, September 27, 2012), cover price $142.00

Product Description: This book elucidates the conceptual or theoretical issues in religious studies by means of utilizing the tools of philosophical analysis, providing a philosophy of religious studies that is anchored in the intentional systems theory, on one hand, and in scientific realism, on the other hand...read more

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9780773426061 | Edwin Mellen Pr, June 15, 2012, cover price $129.95 | About this edition: This book elucidates the conceptual or theoretical issues in religious studies by means of utilizing the tools of philosophical analysis, providing a philosophy of religious studies that is anchored in the intentional systems theory, on one hand, and in scientific realism, on the other hand.

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Product Description: The relationship between religion, power and play is a promising theme in the study of religion. This collection of essays contains Andre Droogers most relevant articles on their interconnectedness. Having worked on three continents, researching and lecturing in both anthropology and religious studies, he was able to explore the theme in an interdisciplinary and comparative way...read more

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9783110259506 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, November 1, 2011, cover price $210.00 | About this edition: The relationship between religion, power and play is a promising theme in the study of religion.

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Product Description: This widely used textbook offers a unique perspective on how people engage in everyday religious practices--such as prayer, sacrifice, initiation, and healing--by investigating broad-scale issues, such as transnationalism, gender, and religious laws...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780205200115, titled "Religions in Practice: An Approach to the Anthropology of Religion" | Taylor & Francis, December 1, 1997, cover price $42.00 | also contains Religions in Practice: An Approach to the Anthropology of Religion | About this edition: This widely used textbook offers a unique perspective on how people engage in everyday religious practices--such as prayer, sacrifice, initiation, and healing--by investigating broad-scale issues, such as transnationalism, gender, and religious laws.

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Product Description: Pilgrimage places anthropological works on a privileged platform for religious studies. The origin of built environment sets apart a platform for worship. It contains the dichotomy of life and death, striving towards the spirit of a dead that may or may not be religious...read more

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9783825816186 | Lit Verlag, February 28, 2011, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Pilgrimage places anthropological works on a privileged platform for religious studies.

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Product Description: Religious belief is an extremely powerful motivator of human behaviour. Religious considerations permeate and influence all parts of a culture. Religious systems are universal in human cultures, around the world and through all stages of human history and prehistory...read more
By Stephen D. Glazier (contributor), David Hicks (contributor), Stevens (editor), Denice J. Szafran (editor) and Richard Warms (contributor)

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9780415494236 | Routledge, January 25, 2011, cover price $1390.00 | About this edition: Religious belief is an extremely powerful motivator of human behaviour.

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9780205718115, titled "The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft" | 3 edition (Taylor & Francis, November 29, 2010), cover price $87.95
9780205516230, titled "The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft" | 2 edition (Taylor & Francis, May 25, 2007), cover price $62.60
9780205344215 | Taylor & Francis, August 27, 2004, cover price $72.40

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Product Description: Pascal Boyer argues that religion is largely an illusion. The anthropologist traces religion's cognitive and evolutionary aspects. By "religion" he means a kind of existential and cognitive "package" that includes views about supernatural agency (gods), notions of morality, particular rituals and sometimes particular experiences, as well as membership in a particular community of believers...read more
By Michael G. Parker (editor)

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9783525569405 | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gmbh & Co, August 23, 2010, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Pascal Boyer argues that religion is largely an illusion.

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This book takes a unique perspective as it looks at how people engage in everyday religious practices , such as prayer, sacrifice, pilgrimage, and dress, as well as investigates major issues of gender, nation-states, and laws with respect to religion. No other text examines the full spectrum of religions from small-scale societies to full-blown "world religious movements." The in-depth treatment of Islam and Christianity is of particular interest to students, and is easily expanded to include field projects directly related to material covered in the text.The revised edition includes up-to-the-minute examples and high-interest news stories from today's headlines.

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9780205418145 | 3 edition (Taylor & Francis, June 22, 2004), cover price $85.00
9780205336326 | 2 edition (Taylor & Francis, August 1, 2001), cover price $59.80 | About this edition: This book takes a unique perspective as it looks at how people engage in everyday religious practices , such as prayer, sacrifice, pilgrimage, and dress, as well as investigates major issues of gender, nation-states, and laws with respect to religion.
9780205200115 | Taylor & Francis, December 1, 1997, cover price $42.00 | also contains Record of the Organizations Engaged in the Campaign, Siege, and Defense of Vicksburg | About this edition: This widely used textbook offers a unique perspective on how people engage in everyday religious practices--such as prayer, sacrifice, initiation, and healing--by investigating broad-scale issues, such as transnationalism, gender, and religious laws.

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Product Description: Insight Guides South Africa entertains while it informs and inspires while it explains. It is both lavishly illustrated and grippingly topical. It´s the perfect all-in-one guidebook.
By Johannes Haape (editor)

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9780887297687 | Apa Productions, January 1, 1998, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Insight Guides South Africa entertains while it informs and inspires while it explains.
9780395755051 | Apa Productions, September 1, 1995, cover price $22.95 | also contains Anthropology of Religion: The Basics | About this edition: Provides information on accommodations, dining, safaris, museums, and events
9780134670690, titled "Insight Guides: South Africa" | Macmillan General Reference, December 1, 1992, cover price $19.95

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