Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality Hardback
by Stanley J. (Harvard University, Massachusetts) Tambiah
Part of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures series
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Professor Tambiah, one of today's leading anthropologists, is known particularly for his penetrating and scholarly studies of Buddhism.
In this accessible and illuminating book he deals with the classical opposition between magic, science and religion.
He reviews the great debates in classical Judaism, early Greek science, Renaissance philosophy, the Protestant Reformation, and the scientific revolution, and then reconsiders the three major interpretive approaches to magic in anthropology: the intellectualist and evolutionary theories of Tylor and Frazer, Malinowski's functionalism, and Levy Bruhl's philosophical anthropology, which posited a distinction between mystical and logical mentalities.
There follows a wide-ranging and suggestive discussion of rationality and relativism.
The book concludes with a discussion of thinking in the history and philosophy of science, which suggests interesting perspectives on the classical opposition between science and magic.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:200 pages, 18 Halftones, unspecified; 1 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/03/1990
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- ISBN:9780521374866
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:200 pages, 18 Halftones, unspecified; 1 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/03/1990
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- ISBN:9780521374866