Religious Borderlands: Sociology of Religion in Conversation with Its Disciplinary Neighbors
Anthropology, religious studies, and area studies constitute sociology of religion's disciplinary neighbors through their shared interest in religion as an analytical object. Within these fields, a number of significant critiques of both how religion is defined and described and who ultimately...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
[2016]
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 77, Issue: 3, Pages: 225-240 |
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| Summary: | Anthropology, religious studies, and area studies constitute sociology of religion's disciplinary neighbors through their shared interest in religion as an analytical object. Within these fields, a number of significant critiques of both how religion is defined and described and who ultimately shapes those definitions have emerged. By analyzing clusters of these critiques related to religion as a category and whether religion has essential characteristics, and emic/etic distinctions, this paper incorporates important points in each of these criticisms that have significant implications for the direction of sociological research on religion. Additionally, this paper draws on historical data from China and Japan's period of state formation and their attempts to deal with the question of religion. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srw015 |