Religious Anthropology and its Place in Anthropological Knowledge

Today, "anthropology" is a very frequent word with multiple meanings in the texts of social sciences and humanities, and by combining with other words, it creates diverse and wide-ranging expressions that sometimes share words with each other, overlap in meaning, or overlap. For example, what is equivalent to the term religious anthropology in Farsi, is usually a word common to two distinct concepts of religious anthropology and religious anthropology. In this article, first the reason for such conceptual interferences is revealed, then with the help of logical classification method, the types of "religious anthropology" are introduced and the place of each of them in the knowledge of anthropology is determined. Of course, for this purpose, it was first necessary to draw the various branches of the tree of anthropological knowledge in a logical concept.This research is developmental-applied and its method is descriptive-analytical. The data were collected using the library method and the qualitative content analysis method of categorization, analysis and finally classified in a logical model with methodological criteria. Based on the results of this research, religious anthropology can be achieved by all four philosophical, mystical, scientific and narrative methods and of course with different applications and scopes.