Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality

Name: Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality
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ISBN: 9780521376310

ISBN-10: 0521376319

ISBN-13: 9780521376310

Edition: 1990

Authors: Stanley J. Tambiah

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Professor Tambiah is one of the leading anthropologists of the day, particularly known for his penetrating and scholarly studies of Buddhism. In this accessible and illuminating book he deals with the classical opposition of magic with 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 Lvy-Bruhl's philosophical anthropology, which posited a distinction between mystical and logical…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/22/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.06" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



List of plates


Foreword Alfred Harris


Acknowledgements



Magic, science and religion in Western thought: anthropologyG++s intellectual legacy



AnthropologyG++s intellectual legacy



Sir Edward Tylor versus Bronislaw Malinowski: is magic false science or meaningful performance?



MalinowskiG++s demarcations and his exposition of the magical art



Multiple orderings of reality: the debate initiated by L+ï¿½vy-Bruhl



Rationality, relativism, the translation and commensurability of cultures



Modern science and its extensions


Notes


Bibliography


Index