Conceptualizing Religion

Conceptualizing Religion
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 1571812199
ISBN-13 : 9781571812193
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Book Synopsis Conceptualizing Religion by : Benson Saler

Download or read book Conceptualizing Religion written by Benson Saler and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How might we transform a folk category - in this case religion - into a analytical category suitable for cross-cultural research? In this volume, the author addresses that question. He critically explores various approaches to the problem of conceptualizing religion, particularly with respect to certain disciplinary interests of anthropologists. He argues that the concept of family resemblances, as that concept has been refined and extended in prototype theory in the contemporary cognitive sciences, is the most plausible analytical strategy for resolving the central problem of the book. In the solution proposed, religion is conceptualized as an affair of "more or less" rather than a matter of "yes or no," and no sharp line is drawn between religion and non-religion.


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