Understanding religion : selected essays / Benson Saler.
2009
BL51 .S41155 2009eb
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Title
Understanding religion : selected essays / Benson Saler.
Author
ISBN
9783110218664 (electronic bk.)
3110218666 (electronic bk.)
3110218666 (electronic bk.)
Imprint
Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, ©2009.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (245 pages)
Call Number
BL51 .S41155 2009eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)503049234
Summary
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 addres.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Source of Description
Print version record.
Series
Religion and reason ; 48.
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Print version: Saler, Benson. Understanding religion. Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, ©2009
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