Murray J Leaf: 3 books
The Anthropology of Western Religions
Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
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...
The Anthropology of Eastern Religions
Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
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...
Human Thought and Social Organization
Anthropology on a New Plane
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Two characteristics of human beings as a species are the elaboration of our thought through language and symbolism and the pluralistic nature of our systems of social organization. Human Thought and Social Organization shows empirically and precisely, how these two characteristics are related by determining...