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1 sty 1998 · Religion may be interpreted as a socio-cultural organization underpinned by collective practices of worship, faith, sacred ceremonies, and a belief in a supreme, supernatural being (Idinopulos...
30 paź 2019 · The term "religion" can be defined as a system of beliefs and practices that relate to supernatural beings and are intended to organize and define the environment in which the...
This booklet attempts to get past all that by providing a definition of religion that adequately captures the phenomenon's complexity, that stimulates thought and research, and that sensitizes us to the profound manipulation, colonization, and destruction of human spirituality by elites, and how we have all participated in their colonization ...
19 lut 2007 · 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 ...
The first concerns the question of the definition of religion. In thesis number two, Lincoln offers a brief but suggestive definitional statement: "Religion, I submit, is that discourse whose defining characteristic is its desire to speak of things eternal and transcendent with an authority
"Religion" is not mere intellectual assent to certain propositions about the nature of life. Rather, it involves what people do in their lives: "religion" has been called "enacted tradition" or "embodied belief."
21 lip 2021 · The aim of this entry is to orient readers to an ongoing debate about the definition of the concept “religion” that cuts across disciplinary lines, among them: anthropology, history, philosophy, psychology, religious studies, sociology, and most recently, cognitive science.
