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How might we transform a folk category - in this case religion - into a analytical category suitable for cross-cultural research? In this volume, the author addresses that question. He critically explores various approaches to the problem of conceptualizing religion, particularly with respect to certain disciplinary interests of anthropologists. He argues that the concept of family resemblances, as that concept has been refined and extended in prototype theory in the contemporary cognitive sciences, is the most plausible analytical strategy for resolving the central problem of the book. In the solution proposed, religion is conceptualized as an affair of "more or less" rather than a matter of "yes or no," and no sharp line is drawn between religion and non-religion.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Abjuring a Definition and Other Matters
Chapter 2. Holding a Definition in Abeyance and a Case for a Definition
Chapter 3. Monothetic Definitions
Chapter 4. More on Monothetic Definitions
Chapter 5. Multi-factorial Approaches: Family Resemblance and Polythesis
Chapter 6. A Prototype Approach
Chapter 7. Ethnocentrism and Distanciation
References Cited
Index
