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Conceptualizing Religion - Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories (Paperback, New edition) Loot Price: R820
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Conceptualizing Religion - Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories (Paperback, New edition)

Benson Saler

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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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Imprint: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2000
First published: December 1999
Authors: Benson Saler
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-57181-219-3
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Philosophy of religion > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Philosophy of religion > General
LSN: 1-57181-219-9
Barcode: 9781571812193

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