Religion and Psychology

Religion and Psychology

religion and psychology short essay

2-3 pages, double spaced

 Support your answer with ethnographic examples from class materials.

Drawing upon Victor Turner’s description of Ndembu rituals, write an essay comparing and contrasting symbolic/interpretive (Turner and Geertz) approaches with cognitive (Boyer and Keller/Lehman) approaches to religious symbolism.

*please use in-text citation

sources:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1207/s15516709cog1502_4/pdf

http://showme.physics.drexel.edu/thury/Myth/Turner2.html

http://anththeoryfall09.wikifoundry.com/page/Symbolic+and+Interpretive+Anthropology

http://anththeoryfall09.wikifoundry.com/page/Symbols+in+Ndembu+Ritual,+Victor+Turner

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Studies inform that since time memorial, interests in religion, spiritual and cultural theories have never been greater. While archeologists, anthropologists, philosophers, classicists, psychiatrists, evolution biologists, and scholars of culture and religion have tried all the best…

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