Clifford Geertz argued for a
broader psychological analysis of religion. He approaches the subject using sociology, history, and semantics to arrive at the notion, religion should be studied using a mature theory of religion. Thus, this will integrate certain approaches into a more comparative and conceptual system. He relates his findings to "primitive thought", making comparisons to western and non-western societal groups, thus concreting the subject's influence in the anthropological approach to religion.
Geertz explains:
Two characteristics of anthropological work on religion accomplished since the Second World War strike me as curious when such work is placed against that carried out
