From the interest that arise in the present moment religious phenomena, the primary intention of anthropology of religion is to provide a wide audience an introduction and affordable at the same time, well-informed and critical study of them._x000D_
The discussion of methodological and ideological aspects of the problem has an important place in this work. The many avatars from the nineteenth century, have experienced the scientific study of religion is one of the most characteristic intellectual adventures of Western modernity. In the evolutionary environment of the time ("social Darwinism"), lay the foundation of chairs for the study of religions was one of the hot spots expressing the contentious political, cultural and social cooperation between the scientific and theological study of the phenomena religious. Somehow, the "anti-Christian quarrel" became polarized around this issue, whose protagonists were the one hand, churches and on the other, the liberal state. Fortunately, and typically, this state of affairs has been overcome and, today, both from science and from theology, the study affirms the need for cultural, political, social and religious phenomena._x000D_

Throughout the length and width of the text, the author holds the view that religion is an indispensable part of any anthropological praxis, which expressly does not submit to an unwarranted reduction and at the same time, extremely harmful to the approaches of the discipline . In the nine chapters that make up the writing, Duch, after briefly outlining the historical background of non-theological study of religion, broadly outlines some of the most significant elements of the various proposals that have been made to approach the varied religious universes._x000D_
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Briefly outlines the main features of the different disciplines that study religious manifestations. Two issues are also extremely difficult in the analysis of religious phenomena: 1) the definition of religion, 2) the origin of the idea of God. The author presents the main aspects of its methodology in the chapter on the classification of religions. Later, echoing the problems surrounding the personal and impersonal institutionalization of religions, refers to the question of the organization of religion, which allows, or it very briefly, referring to the problem of function religion. Because of the impact it had in the past, acute exposure of the controversy about "religion-magic-science", so important in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, is also discussed briefly. Finally, a chapter is devoted to the use of the word that is characteristic of the religious universe._x000D_
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All chapters of the Anthropology of Religion accompanied by a small critical bibliography, which allows the interested reader to delve into the issues discussed in the text._x000D_
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Of interest to teachers, students and interested in philosophy, theology, cultural anthropology and history of thought.