Understanding Religion : Selected Essays
Benson. Saler
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Berlin : : De Gruyter, , 2009.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (255 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Frontmatter; Contents; Introduction; The Ethnographer as Pontifex; E. B. Tylor and the Anthropology of Religion; Culture in Phylogenetic Perspective: An Appreciation of the Contributions of A. I. Hallowell; On What We May Believe About Beliefs; Finding Wayú Religion; On Credulity; Secondary Beliefs and the Alien Abduction Phenomenon; 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. - 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 religion, understanding what is likely to be involved in studying and discussing beliefs, and attempting to explain religion and religions by drawing on the contemporary cognitive and evolutionary sciences.
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| ISBN | 9783110218657
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