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journal article Anthropological Conceptions of Religion: Reflections on GeertzMan New Series, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Jun., 1983) , pp. 237-259 (23 pages) Published By: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland https://doi.org/10.2307/2801433 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2801433
Read and download Log in through your school or library Alternate access options For independent researchers Read Online Read 100 articles/month free Subscribe to JPASS Unlimited reading + 10 downloads Purchase article $20.00 - Download now and later Abstract This article examines Geertz's well-known definition of religion, with its emphasis on meanings, and argues that it omits the crucial dimension of power, that it ignores the varying social conditions for the production of knowledge, and that its initial plausibility derives from the fact that it resembles the privatised forms of religion so characteristic of moder (Christian) society, on which power and knowledge are no longer significantly generated by religious institutions. A critical evaluation of Geertz's text is accompanied by brief explorations of some of the ways in which power and knowledge were connected in medieval Christianity. The article ends with a plea for investigating religion with reference to the historical conditions necessary for the existence of particular practices and discourse. Publisher Information The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is the world's longest-established scholarly association dedicated to the furtherance of anthropology (the study of humankind) in its broadest and most inclusive sense. The Institute is a non-profit-making registered charity and is entirely independent, with a Director and a small staff accountable to the Council, which in turn is elected annually from the Fellowship. It has a Royal Patron in the person of HRH The Duke of Gloucester KG, GCVO. journal article Anthropologists Versus Missionaries: The Influence of Presuppositions [and Comments and Reply]Claude E. Stipe, Ethel Boissevain, Ronald J. Burwell, Vinigi Grottanelli, Jean Guiart, Hermann Hochegger, Rodolfo Larios Núñez, Lucy Mair, Martin Mluanda, William H. Newell, Martin Ottenheimer, Glenn T. Petersen, Delbert Rice, Michael A. Rynkiewich, Frank A. Salamone, Robert B. Taylor, Julio Terán-Dutari, Paul R. Turner and Adriaan C. Van Oss Current Anthropology Vol. 21, No. 2 (Apr., 1980) , pp. 165-179 (15 pages) Published By: The University of Chicago Press https://www.jstor.org/stable/2741710 Read and download Log in through your school or library Alternate access options For independent researchers Read Online Read 100 articles/month free Subscribe to JPASS Unlimited reading + 10 downloads Purchase article $14.00 - Download now and later Abstract Although a missionary once served as president of the Royal Anthropological Institute, anthropological enculturation commonly includes categorizing missionaries as enemies. The conditioning seems to be more covert than overt, since anthropology texbooks seldom deal specifically with missionary activity and few ethnographies contain condemnations of missionaries. Two presuppositions which may influence the antimissionary attitude are (1) that the culture of a primitive society is an "organic unity" and (2) that religious beliefs are essentially meaningless. The organic-unity position conceives of a society as being almost a work of art in the way in which facets of culture are counterbalanced and interrelated. Since the missionary is usually involved in directed culture change, he is seen as doing violence to that "delicate machine," "functioning organism," or "intricate symbolic system." Social anthropologists tend to consider religious beliefs as essentially meaningless and argue that the major importance of religion is in the social relations involved in the rituals. It is therefore not surprising that anthropologists have a negative attitude toward those whose lives are committed to teaching people that the acceptance of specific religious beliefs is important. We should be concerned with the bases of the negative attitudes which many of us manifest, for an unwillingness to deal with them candidly will make it difficult to control for bias in field research. Journal Information Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.Current Anthropology is a transnational journal devoted to research on humankind, encompassing the full range of anthropological scholarship on human cultures and on the human and other primate species. Communicating across the subfields, the journal features papers in a wide variety of areas, including social, cultural, and physical anthropology as well as ethnology and ethnohistory, archaeology and prehistory, folklore, and linguistics. Publisher Information Since its origins in 1890 as one of the three main divisions of the University of Chicago, The University of Chicago Press has embraced as its mission the obligation to disseminate scholarship of the highest standard and to publish serious works that promote education, foster public understanding, and enrich cultural life. Today, the Journals Division publishes more than 70 journals and hardcover serials, in a wide range of academic disciplines, including the social sciences, the humanities, education, the biological and medical sciences, and the physical sciences. Rights & Usage This item is part of a JSTOR
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