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evolutionist concerns with the origins of religion, the Durkheimian functionalist concerns with the role of religion in a social whole, a Freudian functionalism which probed religion's projective functionality to individual anxieties of guilt.
Science and religion are modes of thought, ways of knowing or forms of life that have been pervasive in Western cultural formations for the last three to four centuries. As theories about the world and human life, they have often engendered conflicting viewpoints redolent of acrimonious social and cultural struggles.
2 wrz 2009 · In the social sciences of religion the task of defining religion can be characterized as a necessary, exploratory, and useful task, but also as a superfluous, impossible, and ethnocentric activity. In this chapter the landscape is mapped through which definers of religion travel, including its T-junctions and crossroads.
This article examines Geertz's well-known definition of religion, with its emphasis on meanings, and argues that it omits the crucial dimension of power, that it ignores the varying social conditions for the production of knowledge, and that its initial plausibility derives from the
“A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices about life and the world relative to the supernatural that unite the believers or followers into a social organization or moral community.” “This definition includes four essential elements of a religion: (1) a belief in the supernatural; (2) a set of beliefs regarding life and the ...
This article traces the history of the anthropology of religion from the nineteenth century to the present. It argues that a focus on such questions as rationality and ritual was central to the emergence of the discipline.
Anthropology of Religion is defined as the study of religious beliefs, rituals, and practices within different cultures and societies, including topics such as rationality, witchcraft, belief, language, and the body. AI generated definition based on: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), 2015
