Understanding religion: selected essays
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 abou...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Religion and reason |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Berlin [u.a.]
De Gruyter
2009
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Religion and reason (48)
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| Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift: | Religion and reason
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| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Religion
B Religionswissenschaft |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Aufsatzsammlung
B Religion B Konferenzschrift |
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| Parallele Ausgabe: | Elektronisch
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index "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 |
| ISBN: | 3110218658 |