Understanding Religion : : Selected Essays / / Benson Saler.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religion and Reason : Theory in the Study of Religion ,
48 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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“
- Backmatter