A cross-cultural study of the elementary forms of religious life: shamanistic healers, priests, and witches
Empirical cross-cultural research provides a typology of magico-religious practitioners and identifies their relations to social complexity, their selection-function relationships, and reveals their biosocial bases. Different practitioner types and configurations are associated with specific ecologi...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge
[2021]
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Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2021, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 27-45 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religious life
/ Basic form
/ Magical thinking
/ Comparison of cultures
/ Shamanism
/ Healer
/ Magician
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RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements BB Indigenous religions |
Further subjects: | B
Anthropology of shamanism
B Cross-cultural studies B Shamanism B Cultural Evolution B Comparative Religion B Religion B evolution of religion B priesthoods |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |