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Contemporary Western Ethnography and the Definition of Religion (Paperback)
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Contemporary Western Ethnography and the Definition of Religion (Paperback)
Series: Continuum Advances in Religious Studies
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Exploring whether the widespread activity of sitting next to a
grave and talking to a deceased person is a religious act forms the
basis of this book, and the author argues that it is probably much
more typical of a fundamental religious act than much of what
happens in churches, synagogues or mosques. Beginning with the
definitions of religion provided by a number of anthropologists and
sociologists this book claims that the large majority of these
definitions have been influenced by Christian thinking, so leading
to definitions that stress the systematic nature of religion, the
importance of the transcendental and the transformative activity of
religion. Through a detailed exploration of a number of
ethnographic studies of religious activity, these aspects of
traditional definitions are challenged. Borrowing Durkheim's
language, Martin D. Stringer argues that the most elementary form
of religious life in many Western societies today, and by
implication in many other societies around the world, is
situational, mundane and concerned with helping people to cope with
their day-to-day lives.
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