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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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
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  • Introduction /
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  • Abjuring a Definition and Other Matters /
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  • Holding a Definition in Abeyance and A Case for a Definition /
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  • Monothetic Definitions /
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  • More on Monothetic Definitions /
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  • Multi-factorial Approaches: Family Resemblance and Polythesis /
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  • A Prototype Approach /
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  • Ethnocentrism and Distanciation /
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  • References Cited /
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  • Index /
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  • Studies in the History of Religions Numen Bookseries /
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