ANT 556 - Anthropology of Religion

Graduate standing. (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. Not open to students with credit for ANT 355 . Graded ABCDE. [“”]