RELIGIOUS VIEWS AND FUNCTIONS

RELIGION According to Crapo, (2002) the anthropologists have found difficult to define the term religion in a common way; but they have agreed them all that there are major characteristics of global religion. Those characteristics includes beliefs in supernatural being, and supernatural power, symbolic expression of feelings and rituals performed by either individual or group for the purpose of influencing supernatural realm. There are some anthropologists who tried to define Religion like Anthony FC Wallace, who defined religion as belief and ritual concerned with supernatural beings, power and forces. It is one of the factor that may influences the society transform its social structures. McGee (2004). ANTHROPOLOGY Its the study of human being and culture. It is one of the study that concerned with understanding others. May be in various forms like cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, geological anthropology, linguistic anthropology and other. Anthro...