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Too often, Western encounters with the Islamic world commence with stereotypes and end with a renewed distance. Drawing from decades of experience studying the Muslim world, Lawrence Rosen challenges these narrow understandings. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Rosen shows the wide-ranging significance of Muslim art, culture, and law around the world. Exploring political, economic, and social encounters within and with the Muslim world across the eras, he considers a wide range of contexts - from fifteenth-century mosaics in Central Asia that reveal a complex understanding of mathematics, to the political choices available to the youth of modern-day Morocco and Cairo. With in-depth analyses of art, law, and religion, and how they informed one another, Rosen develops a vibrant, nuanced portrait of the Islamic world. Drawing linkages across time, regions, and cultures, this is a significant anthropological study of the Islamic world from a seasoned scholar.

Islamic sociology. --- Anthropology of religion

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Il existe une abondante littérature universitaire consacrée aux religions, aux faits religieux, à la sécularisation ou encore à la laïcité. En revanche, il y a encore peu de recherches qui s'intéressent à la manière dont les professions sociales et socio-éducatives abordent et traitent les croyances des personnes qu'elles accompagnent. L’ouvrage proposé ici prétend mettre à disposition des intervenant-e-s sociaux un cadre de réflexion anthropologique pour tenter de mieux comprendre comment les dispositions croyantes des personnes qu’ils accompagnent, mais aussi leurs propres convictions, se construisent, et de quelle manière ils peuvent s’en saisir, dans un contexte socio-politique européen particulièrement sensible

Social service --- Anthropology of religion

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Religion has been a central part of human experience since at least the dawn of recorded history. The gods change, as do the rituals, but the underlying desire remains--a desire to belong to something larger, greater, most lasting than our mortal, finite selves. But where did that desire come from? Can we explain its emergence through evolution? Yes, says biological anthropologist Barbara J. King--and doing so not only helps us to understand the religious imagination, but also reveals fascinating links to the lives and minds of our primate cousins. Evolving God draws on King's own fieldwork among primates in Africa and paleoanthropology of our extinct ancestors to offer a new way of thinking about the origins of religion, one that situates it in a deep need for emotional connection with others, a need we share with apes and monkeys. Though her thesis is provocative, and she's not above thoughtful speculation, King's argument is strongly rooted in close observation and analysis. She traces an evolutionary path that connects us to other primates, who, like us, display empathy, make meanings through interaction, create social rules, and display imagination--the basic building blocks of the religious imagination. With fresh insights, she responds to recent suggestions that chimpanzees are spiritual--or even religious--beings, and that our ancient humanlike cousins carefully disposed of their dead well before the time of Neandertals. King writes with a scientist's appreciation for evidence and argument, leavened with a deep empathy and admiration for the powerful desire to belong, a desire that not only brings us together with other humans, but with our closest animal relations as well.--

Religion, Prehistoric --- Anthropology of religion

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anthropology of religion --- religious studies --- sociology

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Religion --- Anthropology of religion --- Religion and culture