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Religions in Practice

An Approach to the Anthropology of Religion

By: John R. Bowen

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Hardcover | 1 August 2017 | Edition Number 7

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Religions in Practice provides a comprehensive and primarily theme-based overview for students who are being introduced to the anthropology of religion. While covering traditional topics like magic, witchcraft, and spiritual healing, the book also addresses key contemporary subjects such as migration, nationalism, transnationalism, law, and secularism. It offers an issues-oriented perspective on everyday religious behaviors and examines small-scale societies as well as major, established religions. Bowen successfully balances the presentation of theory and concepts with rich case study examples, integrating theoretical discussion with a wide range of cross-cultural ethnographic material.

This seventh edition has been updated throughout and the opening chapters have been reworked to focus more clearly on the question of what is 'religion' and on approaches to studying religion. There is also a new final chapter on violence and religion. The book now contains a greater number of illustrations and each chapter ends with questions for discussion. Further resources are available via a comprehensive companion website.

Industry Reviews

Praise for the sixth edition:

"Bowen's Religions in Practice provides a very compelling introduction to the anthropology of religion, integrating theoretical discussions with ethnographic material from a wide range of societies, especially Islam in its diverse manifestations. While covering traditional topics like magic, witchcraft, and spiritual healing, the book also breaks new ground by covering ultra-contemporary political issues like migration, nationalism, transnationalism, law, and secularism."
- Sean O'Neill, University of Oklahoma

"An excellent introduction to Anthropology of Religion. It lays out the issues clearly, describes different theoretical approaches, and illustrates its points with lots of examples."
- Mark Webb, Texas Tech University

"An eclectic book build around the practice of the world religions."
- Derrick Lemons, the University of Georgia

"Its coverage of a range of issues and phenomena is first-rate. A thorough and very useful textbook, with particularly helpful attention to theory, method, and non-Western religious phenomena."
- James Findlay, California State University Northridge

"Clear, anthropologically oriented discussion of the study of religion"
- Eric Rovie, Georgia Perimeter College-Newton Campus

"It is a clearly written, comprehensive text on the anthropology of religion that focuses primarily on religion as practice rather than as a belief system. It is current and includes important topics relevant to the modern situation. It is well-balanced in terms of the presentation of theory/concepts and case examples."
- Frances Purifoy, University of Louisville

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