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Religion: Anthropological and Sociological Approaches

  • ANTH2402
  • Semester 1 (see Timetable)
  • 6 points
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What is religion? This unit explores how anthropologists and sociologists have approached religion as a central domain of human experience and asks whether it is analytically useful to take religion as a discreet category. Beginning with foundational thinkers like Durkheim, Weber, Marx and Freud, the unit explores the relationship between religion and other realms of social, political and economic life. The unit offers an introduction to evolutionary, functional, structural, psychoanalytical and symbolic perspectives that have been influential not only in the study of religion, but in the disciplines of sociology and anthropology more generally. Drawing on classical anthropological... -- Course Website

Instructor: Assistant Professor Debra McDougall

Prerequisites: any Level 1 Anthropology unit



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