ANT 355 - Anthropology of Religion

ANT 100/INT 100 or SOC 100. (3).

Introduction to major anthropological theories of religion. Discussion of religion as a “natural” aspect of human life, secularism, and the critique of religion as an anthropological category. Religion as a complex ethical and political force. Ethnographic examples drawn from all of the “world religions” as well as other religious traditions. Graded ABCDE. [“”]