Understanding Religion
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Understanding Religion

Selected Essays

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Understanding Religion

Selected Essays

About this book

This volume consists of 12 essays published by the author between the years 1997-2007, a thirteenth paper read at a conference in 2006, and a long introduction prepared specifically for the collection. All of the essays deal with epistemological issues attendant on conceptualizing and defining religion, understanding what is likely to be involved in studying and discussing beliefs, and attempting to explain religion and religions by drawing on the contemporary cognitive and evolutionary sciences. The problem of how best to understand and represent the cultural sensitivities of others is addressed by considering the works of three predecessors, Edward Burnett Tylor, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, and A. Irving Hallowell.

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9783110218657
eBook ISBN
9783110218664
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Epistemology in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. The Ethnographer as Pontifex
  5. E. B. Tylor and the Anthropology of Religion
  6. Culture in Phylogenetic Perspective: An Appreciation of the Contributions of A. I. Hallowell
  7. On What We May Believe About Beliefs
  8. Finding Wayú Religion
  9. On Credulity
  10. Secondary Beliefs and the Alien Abduction Phenomenon
  11. Family Resemblance and the Definition of Religion
  12. Conceptualizing Religion: The Matter of Boundaries
  13. Comparison: Some Suggestions for Improving the Inevitable
  14. Biology and Religion: On Establishing a Problematic
  15. Toward a Realistic and Relevant „Science of Religion“
  16. Backmatter

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