Work Useful to Religion and the Humanities: The Comparative Method in Religion from Las Casas to Tylor - Couverture souple

Ammon, Laura

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1606080989 ISBN 13 : 9781606080986

Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

In many ways, the method of comparison in the study of religion is connected to European expansion and empire building. This work explores the early modern origins of the comparative method for the cross-cultural study of religion, beginning with its roots in the earliest missionary contact in the Spanish conquest and concluding with the Victorian anthropologists of the British Empire. Ammon explores the development of the comparative method in religion from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, approaching the history of comparison by tracing its development from the first moments of contact with the New World through the recognized origin of the discipline of anthropology. This work delineates the comparative method from Bartolome de Las Casas to Edward Burnett Tylor, exploring a piece of the story we can tell about the development of the comparative methods and religious transformation in the disciplines of anthropology, ethnology, and comparative religion.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Laura Ammon is Assistant Professor of Religion and Faculty Fellow at Appalachian State University, North Carolina.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1606080989
• ISBN 13: 9781606080986
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 136
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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