Anthropology

=== Religion ===
{{Anthropology of religion}}
{{main|Anthropology of religion}}
The anthropology of religion involves the study of religious institutions in relation to other social institutions, and the comparison of religious beliefs and practices across cultures. Modern anthropology assumes that there is complete continuity between [[magical thinking]] and religion,<ref name="Cassirer1944">[[Ernst Cassirer|Cassirer, Ernst]] (1944) [https://books.google.com/books?id=pe9fWSv-iLsC&pg=PA102 ''An Essay On Man''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319070726/http://books.google.com/books?id=pe9fWSv-iLsC&pg=PA102 |date=19 March 2015 }}, pt.II, ch.7 ''Myth and Religion'', pp.&nbsp;122–123.</ref>{{refn|group=n|"It seems to be one of the postulates of modern anthropology that there is complete continuity between magic and religion. [note 35: See, for instance, RR Marett, Faith, Hope, and Charity in Primitive Religion, the Gifford Lectures (Macmillan, 1932), Lecture II, pp. 21 ff.]&nbsp;... We have no empirical evidence at all that there ever was an age of magic that has been followed and superseded by an age of religion."<ref name="Cassirer1944"/>}} and that every religion is a cultural product, created by the human [[community]] that worships it.<ref name="Guthrie2000p225">Guthrie (2000) ''Guide to the Study of Religion''. Bloomsbury Academic. [https://books.google.com/books?id=wlNJQoZlGC4C&pg=PA225 pp.&nbsp;225–226] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151025182211/https://books.google.com/books?id=wlNJQoZlGC4C&pg=PA225 |date=25 October 2015 }}. {{ISBN|0-304-70176-9}}.</ref>