Understanding religion : selected essays / Benson Saler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saler, Benson.

Contributor:

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Series:

Religion and reason ; 48.

Religion and reason, 0080-0848 ; v. 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion.

Physical Description:

245 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, [2009]

Contents:

Orientations

Introduction

The ethnographer as pontifex

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

Beliefs

On what we may believe about beliefs

Finding Wayú religion

On credulity

Secondary beliefs and the alien abduction phenomenon

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."

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"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [224]-235) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

ISBN:

9783110218657

3110218658

OCLC:

320802412

Publisher Number:

99935561436