Is There Such a Thing as “Religion”? In Search of the Roots of Spirituality

That there exists something like religion seems self-evident. Anthropologists, we are told, have discovered that all cultures have a religion of some kind. But what is “religion”? If we trace the concept to its origins in religio, we see that our current definition of the term is considerably differ...

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Main Author: Benson Bruce Ellis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2020-12-01
Series:Open Theology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2020-0100