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148. The Anthropologists
Manage episode 474286396 series 2538257
Welcome to season XIV of Undeceptions!
Anthropology has a reputation for being the most “godless” of all the sciences.
The so-called Father of Anthropology, Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, abandoned his faith as an anthropologist, declaring religion was “animalistic”.
But religion hasn’t gone away - and many anthropologists are now realising there might be something to belief after all …
- (00:00) - - Coffee and anthropology
- (09:08) - - What is anthropology?
- (14:25) - - Edward Tylor, the 'Father of Anthropology'
- (19:28) - - Why is anthropology so godless?
- (21:25) - - James Frazer
- (34:58) - - E.E. Evans Pritchard
- (42:15) - - Mary Douglas
- (49:26) - - How Christine became a Christian anthropologist
- (53:02) - - What is the "good life"?
- (54:54) - - Victor and Edith Turner
- (59:22) - - Cultural relativism
- (01:03:04) - - Five-Minute Jesus
- (01:09:57) - - Good God, good anthropology
227 episodes
Manage episode 474286396 series 2538257
Welcome to season XIV of Undeceptions!
Anthropology has a reputation for being the most “godless” of all the sciences.
The so-called Father of Anthropology, Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, abandoned his faith as an anthropologist, declaring religion was “animalistic”.
But religion hasn’t gone away - and many anthropologists are now realising there might be something to belief after all …
- (00:00) - - Coffee and anthropology
- (09:08) - - What is anthropology?
- (14:25) - - Edward Tylor, the 'Father of Anthropology'
- (19:28) - - Why is anthropology so godless?
- (21:25) - - James Frazer
- (34:58) - - E.E. Evans Pritchard
- (42:15) - - Mary Douglas
- (49:26) - - How Christine became a Christian anthropologist
- (53:02) - - What is the "good life"?
- (54:54) - - Victor and Edith Turner
- (59:22) - - Cultural relativism
- (01:03:04) - - Five-Minute Jesus
- (01:09:57) - - Good God, good anthropology
227 episodes
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