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
(09:50) - - What is anthropology?
(15:07) - - Edward Tylor, the 'Father of Anthropology'
(20:10) - - Why is anthropology so godless?
(22:07) - - James Frazer
(35:41) - - E.E. Evans Pritchard
(42:58) - - Mary Douglas
(50:08) - - How Christine became a Christian anthropologist
(53:44) - - What is the "good life"?
(55:36) - - Victor and Edith Turner
(01:00:04) - - Cultural relativism
(01:03:46) - - Five-Minute Jesus
(01:10:39) - - Good God, good anthropology

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Undeceptions with John Dickson