Gift theory as cultural theory: reconciling the ir/religious

What if thinking the gift could offer a way of rethinking two of society's most irreconcilable cultural spheres - the religious and the irreligious? The gift is irreducibly dual, marked by both gratuity and reciprocity, excess and exchange. What, then, if creation is a gift? (The "ifness&q...

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Main Author: Manolopoulos, Mark 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2007
In: Culture and religion
Year: 2007, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-13
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Creation / Gift / Religion / Irreligiousness / Exchange
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
NBD Doctrine of Creation
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