Pluralism and Chinese Religions: constructing social worlds through memory, mimesis and metaphor

What counts as the same? Judgments of sameness and difference are fundamental to how social groups create and define themselves over time and across space. This is never a purely objective decision because no two things, people, or groups are ever identical. Group identity thus depends in part on in...

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Authors: Weller, Robert P. 1953- (Author) ; Seligman, Adam B. 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2014
In: Review of Religion and Chinese Society
Year: 2014, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 29-47
Further subjects:B Pluralism
B Mimesis
B Memory
B Religious Identity
B Metaphor
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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