“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...
| Publicado en: | Numen: International Review for the History of Religions Vol. 65; no. 4; pp. 333 - 377 |
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