Author: Wilhelm SchmidtPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Culture Historical Method of Ethnology
Author: Wilhelm SchmidtPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Cultural Historical Method of Ethnology
Author: Wilhelm SchmidtHandbuch Der Methode Der Kulturhistorischen Ethnologie. The Culture Historical Method of Ethnology. The Scientific Approach to the Racial Question ... Translated by S.A. Sieber
Author: Wilhelm SCHMIDT (Professor of Ethnology at St. Gabriel, Mödling.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
The Culture Historical Method of Ethnology: the Scierltific Approach to the Racial Question
Author: Wilhelm SchmidtThe Church and Cultures
Author: Louis J. LuzbetakPublisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 0883446251
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Why should the church be concerned about cultures? Louis J. Luzbetak began to answer this question twenty-five years ago with the publication of The Church and Cultures: An Applied Anthropology for the Religious Worker. Reprinted six times and translated into five languages, it became an undisputed classic in the field. Now, by popular demand, Luzbetak has thoroughly rewritten his work, completely updating it in light of contemporary anthropological and missiological thought and in face of current world conditions. Serving as a handbook for a culturally sensitive ministry and witness, The Church and Cultures introduces the non-anthropologist to a wealth of scientific knowledge directly relevant to pastoral work, religious education social action and liturgy - in fact, to all forms of missionary activity in the church. It focuses on a burning theological issue: that of contextualization, the process by which a local church integrates its understanding of the Gospel (text) with the local culture (context).
Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion
Author: Jacques WaardenburgPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110800721
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
[Originally publ. Mouton 1973 (Religion and Reason, 3)]
In the Beginning God
Author: Winfried CorduanPublisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1433683008
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Christians believe that religion began when God created human beings and revealed himself to them. But is there scholarly evidence for this belief? In the nineteenth century academic world a stormy debate took shape over the origin of religion. Scholars explored the ancient languages of mythology and then considered evolutionary anthropology. A dominant view emerged that religion began with animism -- the reverent honoring of spirits -- and from there evolved into higher forms, from polytheism on to monotheism. However, scholars Andrew Lang and Wilhem Schmidt contended there were cultures throughout the world -- pygmy people in Africa and Asia, certain Australian Aboriginal groups and Native American tribes -- that originated as monotheistic, acknowledging the existence of one supreme God who created the world and holds people accountable for living morally upright lives. The debate wore on, and Schmidt, a member of the Catholic order and a priest, was accused (without evidence) of letting his faith interpret the facts. By the mid-twentieth century a silent consensus formed among scholars not to discuss the origin and evolution of religion any further. The discoveries of Lang and Schmidt have since been largely ignored. However, the evidence on which these scholars based their conclusion of monotheism is still out there. In the Beginning God attempts to educate Christians about the debate on this topic, the facts that were accepted and those that were ignored, and the use to which Christians can put all of this material in making a case for the truth of Christianity.
History and Theory in Anthropology
Author: Alan BarnardPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316101932
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Anthropology is a discipline very conscious of its history, and Alan Barnard has written a clear, balanced and judicious textbook that surveys the historical contexts of the great debates and traces the genealogies of theories and schools of thought. It also considers the problems involved in assessing these theories. The book covers the precursors of anthropology; evolutionism in all its guises; diffusionism and culture area theories, functionalism and structural-functionalism; action-centred theories; processual and Marxist perspectives; the many faces of relativism, structuralism and post-structuralism; and recent interpretive and postmodernist viewpoints.
Encyclopedia of Anthropology
Author: H. James BirxPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0761930299
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 3138
Book Description
Focuses on physical, social and applied athropology, archaeology, linguistics and symbolic communication. Topics include hominid evolution, primate behaviour, genetics, ancient civilizations, cross-cultural studies and social theories.
American Folklore Studies
Author: Simon J. BronnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description