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Understanding religion : selected essays /
This volume consists of 12 essays published by the author between the years 1997-2007, a thirteenth paper read at a conference in 2006, and a long introduction prepared specifically for the collection. All of the essays deal with epistemological issues attendant on conceptualizing and defining relig...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
W. de Gruyter,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Religion and reason ;
48. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: Orientations
- Introduction
- The ethnographer as pontifex
- Part II: Homage to three pioneers
- E.B. Tylor and the anthropology of religion
- Culture in phylogenetic perspective : an appreciation of the contributions of A.I. Hallowell
- Part III: Beliefs
- On what we may believe about beliefs
- Finding Wayú religion
- On credulity
- Secondary beliefs and the alien abduction phenomenon
- Part IV: Studying religion : some conceptual issues
- Family resemblance and the definition of religion
- Conceptualizing religion : the matter of boundaries
- Comparison : some suggestions for improving the inevitable
- Biology and religion : on establishing a problematic
- Toward a realistic and relevant science of religion.