Understanding religion
Subtitle: selected essays
By: Benson Saler.
Series: Religion and reason -- v. 48
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783110218657
Subjects: Religion
Notes: "Twelve of the essays selected for this collection were published between 1997 and 2007. One essay, Culture in phylogenetic perspective : an appreciation of the contributions of A. I. Hallowell, was not actually published; it was read at a conference at Aarhus University in 2006. Most of the published essays were originally conference papers"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Orientations; title: Introduction; title: The ethnographer as pontifex; title: Part II: Homage to three pioneers; title: E.B. Tylor and the anthropology of religion; title: Culture in phylogenetic perspective : an appreciation of the contributions of A.I. Hallowell; title: Part III: Beliefs; title: On what we may believe about beliefs; title: Finding Wayú religion; title: On credulity; title: Secondary beliefs and the alien abduction phenomenon; title: Part IV: Studying religion : some conceptual issues; title: Family resemblance and the definition of religion; title: Conceptualizing religion : the matter of boundaries; title: Comparison : some suggestions for improving the inevitable; title: Biology and religion : on establishing a problematic; title: Toward a realistic and relevant science of religion.