RT Book
T1 Understanding religion: selected essays
T2 Religion and reason
JF Religion and reason
A1 Saler, Benson 1930-2021
LA English
PP Berlin u.a.
PB De Gruyter
YR 2009
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/606573852
AB Part I: Orientations -- Introduction -- The ethnographer as pontifex -- Part II: Homage to three pioneers -- E.B. Tylor and the anthropology of religion -- Culture in phylogenetic perspective : an appreciation of the contributions of A.I. Hallowell -- Part III: Beliefs -- On what we may believe about beliefs -- Finding Wayú religion -- On credulity -- Secondary beliefs and the alien abduction phenomenon -- Part IV: Studying religion : some conceptual issues -- Family resemblance and the definition of religion -- Conceptualizing religion : the matter of boundaries -- Comparison : some suggestions for improving the inevitable -- Biology and religion : on establishing a problematic -- Toward a realistic and relevant science of religion
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
NO "Twelve of the essays selected for this collection were published between 1997 and 2007. One essay, Culture in phylogenetic perspective : an appreciation of the contributions of A. I. Hallowell, was not actually published; it was read at a conference at Aarhus University in 2006. Most of the published essays were originally conference papers"--Pref. - Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BL51
SN 9783110218657
K1 Religion
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
K1 Konferenzschrift