Work Useful to Religion and the Humanities

by Laura Ammon

In many ways, the method of comparison in the study of religion is connected to European expansion and empire building. This work explores the early modern origins of the comparative method for the cross-cultural study of religion, beginning with its roots in the earliest missionary contact in the Spanish conquest and concluding with the Victorian anthropologists of the British Empire. Ammon explores the development of the comparative method in religion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149825344X
• ISBN13: 9781498253444
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"