The Pragmatics Of Defining Religion: Contexts, Concepts, And Contests
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| Originally published | 1999 |
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About The Pragmatics Of Defining Religion: Contexts, Concepts, And Contests
This volume promotes a pragmatic, anti-essentialist and anti-hegemonic approach to the problem of the definition of religion. It argues that definitions of religion are context-bound strategies for pursuing a variety of purposes, extra-academic as well as academic. . . .