“Religious” as a Category: A Comparative Case Study
Rightly noting that premodern non-Western cultures lacked a version of the modern Western category of “the religious,” some scholars have proposed simply abandoning it. Meanwhile, other scholars continue to wield it uncritically. In this article I propose a middle way, using premodern China as an ex...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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Year: 2018, Volume: 65, Issue: 4, Pages: 333-376 |
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China
/ The Religious
/ Concept of
/ Category
/ Connotation
/ Geschichte Anfänge-1800
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the religious
categories in the study of religion
analogy
medieval China
anomaly
zhiguai
the religious as the anomalous
Chinese religions
the Western study of religions
the history of the study of religions
cross-cultural comparison
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