Conceptualizing Religion: Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives and Unbounded Categories

by Benson Saler (Author)

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  1999

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  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.