The anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism : Weberian themes

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The anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism : Weberian themes

David N. Gellner

(Oxford India paperbacks)

Oxford University Press, 2003, c2001

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The anthropology of Buddhism & Hinduism

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [348]-374) and index

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These range from the relationship of Buddhist religious specialists (monks and priests) to shamanic practitioners, to the way in which Brahmanical ideals have spread through history and are expressed in a traditional Hindu city, to the question of how to frame sociological comparisons between similar religious systems in different cultures.

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