Ivan Strenski

Dumont on Religion

Difference, Comparison, Transgression

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Identifies kernel ideas of interest for the study of religion. This book acknowledges Dumont's contribution to kinship studies and focuses on subjects of interest to students and scholars of religion: concepts such as sacred and profane, pure and impure, transcendence, values, ideology, hierarchy, and cross cultural comparison.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9781845532741
• ISBN-10: 1845532740
• Artikelnr.: 24732501

Autorenporträt

Ivan Strenski is Professor and Holstein Endowed Chairholder in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: What Can We Learn from Louis Dumont? Chapter 2: A Contrarian's
Most Contrarian Notion: Dumont on Hierarchy Chapter 3: Our Individualism
and Its Religious Origins Chapter 4: The Comparative Risks of Comparison:
On Not "Remaining Caged within Our Own Frame of Reference" Chapter 5:
Conclusion: Dumont's Morality and Social Cosmology