Paper No.

: 02 Social Cultural Anthropology

Module : 05 Anthropological approaches to study religion

Development Team

Principal Investigator Prof. Anup Kumar Kapoor

Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi

Prof. Sabita, Department of Anthropology, Utkal

Paper Coordinator
University, Bhubaneswar

Gulsan Khatoon, Department of Anthropology, Utkal

Content Writer
University, Bhubaneswar

Prof. A.K. Sinha, Department of Anthropology,

Content Reviewer
Panjab University, Chandigarh

Social Cultural Anthropology

Anthropology
Anthropological approaches to study religion
 Description of Module

Subject Name Anthropology

Paper Name 02 Social Cultural Anthropology

Module Name/Title Anthropological approaches to study religion

Module Id 05

Social Cultural Anthropology

Anthropology
Anthropological approaches to study religion
 Suggested Readings:

 Banton, M.,”Anthropological approaches to the study of religion”, London Tavistock

publications, 1966.

 Durkheim, E., “The Elementary Forms of Religious Life”, New York: Free Press, 1995 [1912]).

 E. E. Evans Pritchard, Theories of Primitive Religion (Oxford: Clarendon, 1965).

 Firth,R. T.,” Religion”, New York: Routledge, 1995.

 Frazer,J. G., “The Golden Bough”, New York: Macmillan, 1935 [1890].

 Geertz, C., “The Interpretation of Culture”, New York: Basic Books, 1973.

 Glazier, S. D., (ed.), “Anthropology of Religion”, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1997.

 Wallace, A. F.C. “Religion: An anthropological view”, New York, Random House, 1966.

Social Cultural Anthropology

Anthropology
Anthropological approaches to study religion