Religion in the National Agenda: What We Mean by Religious, Spiritual, Secular
Sommerville offers idiosyncratic reflections about defining religion in contexts from religious studies, through the courts and educational system, to work in sociology, history, theology, biology, physics, anthropology, political science, and psychology. He addresses a three-fold challenge: (1) def...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2009, Volume: 51, Issue: 3, Pages: 524-526 |
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| Summary: | Sommerville offers idiosyncratic reflections about defining religion in contexts from religious studies, through the courts and educational system, to work in sociology, history, theology, biology, physics, anthropology, political science, and psychology. He addresses a three-fold challenge: (1) definitions of religion are so diverse that they introduce confusion and are sometimes too broad to clarify whether any given thing is more religious than anything else, yet (2) we cannot test definitions against lived religious behavior before deciding how to identify such behavior in the first place; therefore, (3) scholars of religion have long stressed the need to self-consciously stipulate working definitions of the term. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csp075 |