A Western Folk Category in Mind?

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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Main Author: HÅKAN RYDVING
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Finnish Society for the Study of Religion 2008-01-01
Series:Temenos
Online Access:https://journal.fi/temenos/article/view/4599
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