Clifford Geertz

On Comparing Religions and Cultures: An Experiment in Study Abroad

by Andrew Irvine

Originally published in 2006 on IIENetwork.org, the member website of the Institute of International Education.

Ritual

by Olatz González Abrisketa

Entrada en el Dicionario de la existencia, publicado por Anthropos en 2006.

El ritual se ha pensado habitualmente desde los dos extremos que su acepción latina ‘ritus’ recoge: la costumbre y la... more El ritual se ha pensado habitualmente desde los dos extremos que su acepción latina ‘ritus’ recoge: la costumbre y la ceremonia; entre esas acciones mínimas que componen nuestro haber más socializado y aquellas solemnes construcciones que re-presentan narraciones primordiales, mitos, y que podemos equiparar al para nosotros más concluso término de ‘rito’. Entre el “porque sí” de la costumbre -que aborrece por “sucio” todo aquello que la compromete- y el asertivo amén de la ceremonia, se despliegan todas las interpretaciones del ritual comprensibles desde la (in)versión que de la famosa sentencia eucarística hace un buen amigo cuando dice: “tus órdenes son deseos para mí”.

‘Farewell, hello, farewell, hello:’ Tralfamadorian Thought as Religion in Slaughterhouse-Five—A Geertzian Account.

by Ádám Bogár

published in: Szávay, László, ed. Vidimus enim stellam eius... Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2011. 47–55.

This paper argues that it is reasonable to consider the Tralfamadorian philosophy in Kurt Vonnegut's... more This paper argues that it is reasonable to consider the Tralfamadorian philosophy in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five as a religion. To this end I use Cliffford Geertz's paper "Religion as a Cultural System" as a theoretical framework, and point out how Tralfamadorian thought fits into his quasi-functionalist definition of religion. I argue that besides being an almost perfect match with the basics of the Geertzian approach, core elements of the Tralfamadorian thought even qualifiy it as messianistic as well.

The bazaar economy or how bizarre is the bazaar really?

by Frank Fanselow

Man - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 25, (2), 1990, pp. 250-265

Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion

by David Gellner

'Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion’ in P. Connolly (ed.) Approaches to the Study of Religion, 1999, London: Cassell, pp. 10–41.

Sociologists and Sufis

by Svend White

Sacred Symbols as Explanatory Geertz, Eliade and Lonergan

by John Dadosky

Symbole w działaniu. Akademickie konteksty nurtu symbolicznego w antropologii

by Jarema Drozdowicz

“… über Einem Brette, auf offnem allweiten Meere …". Johann Gottfried Herders Konzept der Dichtung als Medium der kulturellen Identität und das Problem einer hermeneutischen Kulturanthropologie

by Franz-Josef Deiters

published in: Estudios Filológicos Alemanes 8, ed. by Fernando Magallanes Latas, Sevilla 2005, pp. 155-168.