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Beliefs: An Open Invitation to the Anthropology of Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion (remixed by Debbie Klein)

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Beliefs: An Open Invitation to the Anthropology of Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion (remixed by Debbie Klein)

Welcome! This course examines religious and spiritual practices from a cross-cultural and comparative perspective. We will investigate the key concepts of this course—magic, witchcraft, and religion. Anthropological themes of this course include difference, ethnography, power, language, ritual, symbolism, mythology, race, class, gender, identity, and postmodernism. You will have fun conducting fieldwork with a spiritual or religious community, people, or person of your choosing.

Author
Debbie Klein
Publisher
Gavilan College
Source
LibreTexts
License
CC BY
Language
EN
Category
Basic Sciences
Contents· 10 sections
  1. 01: Welcome to The Anthropology of Magic Witchcraft and Religion
  2. 02: Ethnographic Research Methods
  3. 03: Theoretical Approaches Toward the Study of Religion
  4. 04: Postmodern Thought
  5. 05: Witchcraft
  6. 06: Supernatural Beliefs about Health and the Role of Religious Specialists in Healing
  7. 07: Rituals
  8. 08: Comparative Religion
  9. 09: Myths as Sacred Stories
  10. 10: Religion and Syncretism