title: Anthropology and Religion: What We Know, Think, and Question, 2nd Edition
author:  Robert L. Winzeler 
description: <span><span><span>This is an excellent review of the vast body of research anthropologists have done on religion around the world and through the history of our species. Winzeler discusses and critiques the underlying assumptions and theoretical orientations as well as the empirical findings of a number of anthropologists. The book is clear that these are not just matters of long ago and far away but pertain to the contemporary world of today's news. This is an excellent book for courses on the anthropology of religion as well as for people who want to know what anthropologists have to say on the topic. In many years of teaching courses on the anthropology of religion, I have found no book to match it for comprehensive coverage. </span></span></span> (E. Paul Durrenberger, Pennsylvania State University)
zlib_text: **Anthropology and Theology**
  
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  **Anthropology and Theology**
  
   **Douglas J. Davies**
  
  _Oxford • New York_
  
  First published in 2002 by **Berg**
  
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  © Douglas J. Davies 2002
  
  All rights reserved.
  
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  without the written permission of Berg.
  
  Berg is an imprint of Oxford International Publishers Ltd.
  
  **Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data** A catalogue record for
  this book is available from the Library of Congress.
  
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  this book is available from the British Library.
  
  ISBN 1 85973 532 0 (Cloth)
  
  ISBN 1 85973 537 1 (Paper)
  
  Typeset by JS Typesetting, Wellingborough, Northants.
  
  Printed in the United Kingdom by Biddles Ltd, Guildford and King’s Lynn.
  
  **Contents**
  
   **Preface**
  
  vii
  
   **1**
  
  Intro