SOC

422

Religious and Symbolic Systems

(

3

cr)

Same as ANTH 422. Prerequisites: 9 hours of social sciences and junior or senior standing. Offered in fall.

Cross-cultural study of religion as a symbol system and its relationship to social action. Major anthropological theories as they relate to primitive and historic religions and to contemporary trends in religious expression. Cosmology and symbol systems, ritual and power, values, ecstatic religion. The individual and belief, and the relationship between religion and culture as a shared system of meaning.
 

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