The Prejudice of Being Human in the Study of Non-Ordinary Realities

Over the course of its history Religious Studies has come to use many terms to describe beings that to a certain mind frame are difficult to grasp. We have spoken of ‘non-ordinary reality’, ‘superhuman beings’, ‘non-natural entities’, ‘humanlike but non-human beings’, ‘counter-intuitive agents’, and...

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Main Author: Tuckett, Jonathan (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] [2015]
In: Diskus
Year: 2015, Volume: 17, Issue: 2, Pages: 21-37
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