Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological ApproachCultural comparative material; Subjects covered; 1) origin and development of religions; 2) function of religions; 3) symbolism; 4) symbolic classification; 5) myth; 6) ritual; 7) shamanism; 8) magic, withcraft and divination; 9) death, ghosts and ancestor workship; 10) dynamics in religion; Includes W.E.H. Stanners The dreaming and A.L. Kroebers Totem and taboo; an ethnological psychoanalysis and Totem and taboo in retropect which are seperately listed in bibliography. |
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