Conceptualizing Religion: Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories

by Benson Saler

Book Overview

How might we transform a folk category - in this case religion - into a analytical category suitable for cross-cultural research? In this volume, the author addresses that question. He critically explores various approaches to the problem of conceptualizing religion, particularly with respect to certain disciplinary interests of anthropologists. He argues that the concept of family resemblances, as that concept has been refined and extended in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571812199
• ISBN13: 9781571812193
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"