Conceptualizing religion
immanent anthropologists, transcendent natives, and unbounded categories
by Benson Saler
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"How might we transform a folk category - in this case religion - into an 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Religious aspects of Ethnology, Religion, Ethnology, Religious aspects, Culturele antropologie, Anthropologie, Godsdienst, Aspect religieux, Begriff, Philosophische Anthropologie, Ethnologie, Religionsethnologie, Religion, philosophy, Public law, History, Ethnology--religious aspects, Bl48 .s255 2000, 200Showing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Conceptualizing Religion: Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-276) and index.
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