Dharma, the Sacred, and Durkheim’s Definition of Religion
I shall argue that Durkheim does not avoid the pitfalls of ethnocentrism in attempting a cross-cultural theory of religion. Durkheim’s theory of religion does not avoid using a culturally specific, and/or derived, view of religion upon religious data. But, in a way, it doesn’t really matter, because...
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University of Otago, Department of Theology and Religion
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Year: 2011, Volume: 1, Issue: 2, Pages: 283-295 |
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