Conceptualizing Religion, Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories.

Conceptualizing Religion, Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories.

How might we transform a folk category - in this case, religion - into an analytical category suitable for cross-cultural research? In addressing that question, this book critically explores various approaches to the problem of conceptualizing religion for scholarly purposes, particularly with respe...

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Main Author: Saler

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 1993.

Series: Numen Book Series 56.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

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Religion.
Ethnology > Religious aspects.

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Call Number: BL48 .S255 1993

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505 0 0 |t Preliminary Material /  |r Benson Saler --   |t Introduction /  |r Benson Saler --   |t Abjuring a Definition and Other Matters /  |r Benson Saler --   |t Holding a Definition in Abeyance and A Case for a Definition /  |r Benson Saler --   |t Monothetic Definitions /  |r Benson Saler --   |t More on Monothetic Definitions /  |r Benson Saler --   |t Multi-factorial Approaches: Family Resemblance and Polythesis /  |r Benson Saler --   |t A Prototype Approach /  |r Benson Saler --   |t Ethnocentrism and Distanciation /  |r Benson Saler --   |t References Cited /  |r Benson Saler --   |t Index /  |r Benson Saler --   |t Studies in the History of Religions Numen Bookseries /  |r Benson Saler. 
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