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Fragmenti o antropologiji religije
FRAGMENTS ON ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION

Author(s): Tomislav Tadić
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, History and theory of sociology
Published by: Filozofski fakultet u Sarajevu - Znanstveno-istraživački inkubator
Keywords: antrophology of religion; sociology of religion; taboo; religious value; (de)secularization; violence;

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I highlight the basic issues and problems of anthropology of religion as a specific scientific discipline for interpretation, analysis and hermeneutical ethnography of religion in terms of its manifestations both in contemporary social relations and in relation to the present, almost extinct, religious systems. I seek to stress the importance, function, significance and necessity of the anthropological interpretation of religion in the B&H social context as one possibility of counter-ideological narrating about religious forms, considering the relative underdevelopment of this discipline on our territory. The paper also points to the relationship of the sociological and anthropological interpretation of religion from the perspective of the central problems which these scientific disciplines have as a common starting point: secularization, globalization, religious extremism, religious violence, etc.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 11-29
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Bosnian