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Book Chapter
The Myth of Religious Violence
2011
Overview
This chapter contains sections titled:
Why No One Seems to Know What Religion Is
Histories of Religion
Power and the Religious/Secular Distinction
Conclusion
References
Publisher
Wiley‐Blackwell
Subject
functionalist accounts, based on empirical observations ‐ of people's actual behavior
/ functionalists, definitions of religion not on substance ‐ but on the way it functions
/ histories of religion ‐ functionalism, fatal problems with substantivist accounts of religion
/ history of the category ‐ religion existing, as a constructed category
/ studying violence under the rubric of religion ‐ simply unjustifiable
/ substantivists, restricting religion to beliefs and practices ‐ like “God” or “gods”
ISBN
9781405191319, 1405191317
