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The 16 pages that link to Anthropology of religion, each with the reason it gives.

• Comparative religionCompared with: It often centers local practice and social context rather than cross-tradition comparison.

• Edward Burnett TylorRelated: Tylor’s theory of animism helped make religion a central comparative topic.

• James George FrazerNarrower topic: Current scholarship revisits questions Frazer addressed with different evidence and assumptions.

• GlossolaliaNarrower topic: Ethnographic research examines how communities learn, interpret, and value tongues.

• Religious studiesRelated: Ethnographic approaches attend to lived practice and local understandings.

• E. E. Evans-PritchardNarrower topic: His work reshaped how anthropologists analyze religious systems without treating them as failed science.

• Sociology of religionCompared with: It overlaps with sociology but often emphasizes cultural meaning and local practice.

• Clifford GeertzNarrower topic: His symbolic account of religion became a lasting reference point in this field.

• Spirit possessionNarrower topic: Anthropologists compare possession without assuming that all communities mean the same thing by it.

• Cargo cultRelated: Cargo cult scholarship shows how analysts have interpreted unfamiliar religious movements through changing theories.

• Cognitive science of religionRelated: Ethnographic accounts ground cognitive explanations in actual religious lives.

• History of religionCompared with: It commonly emphasizes ethnographic evidence and lived practice alongside historical records.

• Mary DouglasNarrower topic: Douglas showed how purity rules and ritual can be analyzed as parts of social life.

• Psychology of religionCompared with: Its ethnographic and cultural emphasis complements psychological accounts of individual processes.

• Melford SpiroNarrower topic: His ethnographies and theories became part of debates about how religion should be explained.

• Theories about religionNarrower topic: It supplies cross-cultural evidence against which theories of religion are tested.