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| Genre/Form: | Controversial literature Ouvrages de controverse |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Guthrie, Stewart, 1941- Faces in the clouds. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993 (OCoLC)631138610 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stewart Guthrie |
| ISBN: | 0195069013 9780195069013 0195098919 9780195098914 |
| OCLC Number: | 25508102 |
| Description: | x, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | 1. The Need for a Theory -- 2. Animism, Perception, and the Effort After Meaning -- 3. The Origin of Anthropomorphism -- 4. Anthropomorphism as Perception -- 5. Anthropomorphism in the Arts -- 6. Anthropomorphism in Philosophy and Science -- 7. Religion as Anthropomorphism. |
| Responsibility: | Stewart Elliott Guthrie. |
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readers will be intrigued by the book's more general thesis that this anthropomorphism is no less pervasive outside the field of art and aesthetic appreciation of nature, and by Guthrie's attempt to explain why this is so ... The explanation is surely plausible, and Guthrie presents it in a lively and lucid fashion. * Ronald W. Hepburn, British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 37, No. 3, July '97 * 'fascinating study of anthropomorphism'Philip J. Stewart, Human Sciences Centre, Oxford, Social Anthropology, Volume 2, Part 2 - 1994 'The subtitle may be deceptive. What is offered here is not so much a "new" account of religion, as something potentially more interesting, namely a sophisticated and clearly argued defence of a classical view, generally neglected in recent studies of religion. Guthrie must be commended for paying attention to recurrent features of religious representations, which are too often neglected or treated as self-evident by cultural anthropologists. Such carefulattention to psychological findings and hypotheses is rare, and is the main reason why the book will be indispensable to all students of religion.'Pascal Boyer, King's College, Cambridge, Method & Theory in the Study of Religion `Academic and seminary libraries will need this provocative and carefully argued explanation.'Library Journal `"Witty, elegant, magnificently written....A stunning achievement that will have an enormous impact on religious studies."'Robert Orsi, Indiana University `"A scholarly contribution to our understanding of the springs of the immagination."'James W. Fernandez, University of Chicago `"Guthrie's argument is interesting, clearly set out, and well taken....The book is lucid, engaging, and very well written."'Wayne Proudfoot, Columbia University Read more...
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- Anthropomorphism.
- Religion -- Controversial literature.
- Anthropomorphisme.
- Religion -- Ouvrages de controverse.
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- Theorie
- Anthropomorphismus
- Antropomorfisme.
- Godsdienst.
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- Theorie.
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