Food, sex & strangers. Understanding religions as everyday life
The book that is reviewed, it is an excellent work, since it gives a new perspective to the study of religion, because not only one must look at the beliefs but at the practices, rituals and social relations that they unfold. Note that in many cases beliefs do not go in the same direction as practic...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | Spanish |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2016
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Journal of the sociology and theory of religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 5 |
| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | The book that is reviewed, it is an excellent work, since it gives a new perspective to the study of religion, because not only one must look at the beliefs but at the practices, rituals and social relations that they unfold. Note that in many cases beliefs do not go in the same direction as practices. Probably because of the religious lag, that is, the practices are adapted to the daily life forms rather than to religious beliefs. In this sense, another of the highlights of Harvey ‘the problem of defining religion and the problem of how we go about defining religion’ |
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| ISSN: | 2255-2715 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of the sociology and theory of religion
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