Spirituality as Method in Anthropology and Sociology

In the history of anthropology, in the late 19th to early 20th centuries, when anthropology was becoming an academic discipline, it focused on studying the origin of humanity and “primitive” human beings. Anthropology has rarely studied “spirituality” as such, but, broadly speaking, “spiritual” is often a catch-all term for all those ways of thinking, practices and ontologies excluded by modern Western rationality and materialism. Pre-modern, “savage”, “primitive” or non-Western cultures and cosmologies are full of “spiritual” ideas and practices. Anthropologists have been at the forefront of studying these cultures and cosmologies. <a href="https://medium.com/the-new-mindscape/spirituality-as-method-in-anthropology-and-sociology-faf883faca27">Website</a>