A Western Folk Category in Mind?
Theoretically and methodologically, students of religion are grouped in a borderland with a great variety of competing approaches. Most of these offer heuristic tools for the interpretation of those human activities that we group together with the help of the concept 'religion'. Others pr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Finnish Society for the Study of Religion
2008-01-01
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| Series: | Temenos |
| Online Access: | https://journal.fi/temenos/article/view/4599 |
| Summary: | Theoretically and methodologically, students of religion are grouped in a borderland with a great variety of competing approaches. Most of these offer heuristic tools for the interpretation of those human activities that we group together with the help of the concept 'religion'. Others present religion as a 'real phenomenon' and offer explanations. The purpose of this article is to discuss some aspects of the most influential of the approaches in the second group, the 'congnitive science of religion'.
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| ISSN: | 2342-7256 |