How Long to Read Ordered Universes

How Long Does it Take to Read Ordered Universes?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 49 minutes to read Ordered Universes by Morton Klass

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This innovative introduction to the anthropological study of religion challenges traditional categories and assumptions, arguing that too many of them reflect ethnocentric perspectives long discarded by contemporary anthropologists. The continued use of such terms as supernatural" and cult" inescapably communicates that what is under study is not as real or true as the beliefs of the observer. This conflict between the axioms of science and Western scholarship and those of the belief systems under study can be avoided with careful attention to terminology and underlying assumptions. Ordered Universes introduces and explores important anthropological issues, concerns, and findings about the institution of religion approached as a human cultural universal. Klass applies a non-ethnocentric perspective to each topic, relying on contemporary anthropological theories and using approaches deriving from other subdivisions of the discipline. Offering operational, non-judgmental definitions that avoid taking a position on whether the belief under study is true" and providing examples from ethnographic (and other) literature on religion, Klass explores values, beliefs, witchcraft, shamans, sacrifice, ghosts, revitalization, and many other concepts. In the final chapters, he considers the emergence of new religious movements and leaders and evaluates the continuing ideological conflict between proponents of scientistic, fundamentalist, and post-rationalist systems of thought.

How long is Ordered Universes?

Ordered Universes by Morton Klass is 279 pages long, and a total of 72,261 words.

This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 88% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Ordered Universes Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 34 minutes to read Ordered Universes aloud.

What Reading Level is Ordered Universes?

Ordered Universes is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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