Issues and Historical Roots of the Study of Religion: February 10
Fiona Bowie, Theories and Controversies, in Anthropology of Religion, ed. Bowie. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2000, pp. 1-37.
Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, in A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion, ed. Michael Lambek. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publisher, 2002, pp. 34-49.
Edward Tylor, Animism, in A Reader in Comparative Religion, ed. William A. Lessa and Evon Z. Vogt, 4th ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1979, pp. 9-19.
The Interpretative Approach: Max Weber: February 17
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, pp. 47-92.
Clifford Geertz, Religion as a Cultural System, in A Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach, pp. 167-178.
