Magic, science, religion and the scope of rationality

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Magic, science, religion and the scope of rationality

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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 Lévy-Bruhl's philosophical anthropology, which posited a distinction between mystical and logical mentalities. He follows with a wide-ranging and suggestive discussion of rationality and relativism and concludes with a discussion of new thinking in the history and philosophy of science, suggesting fresh perspectives on the classical opposition between science and magic.

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Magic, science, religion and the scope of rationality
1999, Cambridge University Press
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Magic, science, religion, and the scope of rationality
1990, Cambridge University Press
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The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures: 1981

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GN 345 T36 1999

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187 p.
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