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The comparative anthropology of religion, or the anthropology of religion compared: a critical comment
- Abstract:
- In this commentary, I argue that we need to expose the multiple layers of historical thinking about the production of the category of religion that play into both our scholarly thinking and the way religion is lived, understood and fought for in the lives of our informants. We can no more take the contours (or limits) of any particular religion for granted, or as self‐evident, than we can take the category of religion, named as such, as a natural human phenomenon that is somehow free from the domain of culture.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1111/1469-8676.12766
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- Wiley
- Journal:
- Social Anthropology More from this journal
- Volume:
- 28
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 482-495
- Publication date:
- 2020-08-07
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-11-11
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1469-8676
- ISSN:
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0964-0282
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English
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1085717
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2020-02-07
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- Copyright holder:
- Hausner, SL
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © 2020 The Authors. Social Anthropology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Association of Social Anthropologists. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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