Religious anthropology

The religious anthropology is the field of the Anthropologie which tries to clarify the made religious .

Anthropological standard test of the religious fact

Tylor, 1871: It is a Croyance in spiritual beings . With Frazer, Tylor belongs to the evolutionary “school” which supports the passage of the religious fact by three stages: the magic, the religion, science.
Durkheim : the religion is an emanation of the company and a celebration of the company by itself . It belongs to the “French sociological school” and tends like Mauss and Weber to stress the importance of the bond between religious fact and company.
Mauss : Together of beliefs, practices and organization .
Lévi-Strauss and the Structuralism
Marc Trough, ~1990: Principles, myths, representations, ritual finding in a recurring way in the religious phenomena .

Fields of study of the religious anthropology

Magic and Religion
Crowned and Holy Layman
and Crowned
Prohibited and pollution
the Rite S
the Myth S
concept of Belief
the religious characters and Charisma
Shamanism and Possession
the taboo

Direction of the religion

The religious facts claim to give keys to include/understand the world. But this direction is produced by the men and the women, even if they consider that this Sens existed before them. The religious fact, if it is not mythical or esoteric, agrees with principles Métaphysique S, or philosophical, which, them, cannot make the economy wonder about the existence of a principle first: idea of Good (Plato), Main cause (Aristote), existence of the To be immutable (Parménide), presence of paramount (Plotin), Way (Taoïsme), thought dialectical (Hegel), vital principle (Bergson) etc the Bible claims that God created the world ex nihilo , i.e. of nothing: " At the beginning God created the sky and the ground. " (Gn 1,1). Saint Jean supports that " God is Amour ". (1 Jn 4,16)…

The religious fact, basically, it is the relation of the man with the Être.

The religion thus implies:

a Belief, Revelation S, a Doctrines.
a Worship returned with the divinity.
a personal Morale conforms to the Foi.

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