Good and Evil Spirits

Good and Evil Spirits
Author: Edward Langton
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2014-07-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1625649916

Ritual and Belief in Morocco: Vol. I (Routledge Revivals)

Ritual and Belief in Morocco: Vol. I (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Edward Westermarck
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2014-04-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317912675

Between the years of 1898 and 1926, Edward Westermarck spent a total of seven years in Morocco, visiting towns and tribes in different parts of the country, meeting local people and learning about their language and culture; his findings are noted in this two-volume set, first published in 1926. Alongside extensive reference material, including Westermarck’s system of transliteration and a comprehensive list of the tribes and districts mentioned in the text, the chapters discuss such areas as the influences on and relationship between religion and magic in Morocco, the origins of beliefs and practices, curses and witchcraft. This is the first volume of two dealing with the same subject, and will fascinate any student or researcher of anthropology with an interest in the history of ritual, culture and religion in Morocco.

Sociology of Religion

Sociology of Religion
Author: Joachim Wach
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2019-03-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429662939

This book, first published in 1947, presents the then-new subject of sociology of religion in systematic and historical theology and in the science of religion, in political theory and the social sciences, in philosophy and psychology, in philology and anthropology. Its intention is to bridge the gulf between the study of religion and the social sciences, an exercise that draws strongly upon cultural anthropology.