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" The anthropology of eastern religions : "
Murray J. Leaf
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633077
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Leaf, Murray J.
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The anthropology of eastern religions : : ideas, organizations, and constituencies /\ Murray J. Leaf
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xi, 177 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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9780739192405 (cloth)
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: 073919240X (cloth)
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: 9780739194904 (paper)
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: 0739194909 (paper)
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9780739192412 (electronic)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Related approaches -- Vedas and Vedanta -- Jain and Buddhist Traditions -- Hindu Traditions -- China's Main Religions -- Japan's Religious Traditions -- Religion and social development
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The world's "great" religions depend on traditions of serious scholarship, dedicated to preserving their key texts but also to understanding them and, therefore, to debating what understanding itself is and how best to do it. They also have important public missions of many kinds, and their ideas and organizations influence many other important institutions, including government, law, education, and kinship. This work is a comparative survey of the world's major religious traditions as professional enterprises and, often, as social movements. Documenting the principle ideas behind Western religious traditions from an anthropological perspective, the author demonstrates how these ideas have been used in building internal organizations that mobilize or fail to mobilize external support. -- From publisher's website
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Anthropology of religion-- Asia
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Religion and sociology-- Asia
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Asia, Religion
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306.6095
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GN470.7.L43 2014
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