أصل الدين : المشكل المقصود للأنتروبولوجيا الدينية

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SummaryThe origin of religion: the intended problem of religious anthropologyReligion is a universal reality.

All peoples have ceremonies, rituals, worship, objects, beings, holy places and times.

Man is a religious animal and it can be said that where there are human beings there is also a god or gods.

It has been a favorite subject of anthropologists since crystallization of anthropology as a self-standing science.

Observers of anthropological studies believe that studies centered on the phenomenon of religion have extended from simple people studies to studies of more complex peoples such as the study of popular beliefs in Christian communities in the Middle East, and Muslim communities in Iran, Pakistan, India, Southeast Asia, North Africa and others.

Interestingly, however, religious anthropology first dealt with the problem of the origin of religion, ie, the search for the beginnings and primitive origins of religious belief.

Some scholars considered this research to be the wrong problem for religious anthropology.

It is only an understanding of the word wrong that the search for the first origins of religious belief is useless and does not lead to satisfactory results in the ence of reliable historical sources.

But we believe that the anthropologists who dealt with the problem of the origin of religion were fully aware of the methodological difficulties facing them and nevertheless went into the throes of research.

It is easy to call for renunciation, especially in that era, which was rife with anti-religious calls, of which Marxism was one of its most prominent representatives.

Therefore, we will first identify religious anthropology and critique the definitions of anthropologists of religion and then present the theories presented by anthropologists in order to explain the origin of religion.

Then we reveal the position of the anthropologists towards religion, which would not allow us to say that these anthropologists intended to address the origin of religion to prove us as an illusion.

But we will show that their explanations have not been sufficiently objective and scientific to prove the rdity of religion and that they are merely accidental explanations, the revelations of some fantasies, and by misleading some wills.