Title Statements
- Full title :Understanding religion : selected essays / Benson Saler.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Walter De Gruyter
- Place of Publication:Berlin
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
Notes
"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"--Preface.
The Physical Object
- Description:245 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783110218657, 3110218658
- oclc:ocn320802412
- LC Classification:BL51
- Dewey Decimal:200
Table of Contents
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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