Taxonomy Construction and the Normative Turn in Religious Studies

Jonathan Z. Smith contends that a taxonomic agenda underlies the study of religion. Before Smith, structuralist scholars saw it as their task to uncover the roots of human taxonomic arrangements that present themselves as natural. Drawing somewhat anachronistically on Smith's taxonomic model, I...

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Published in:Religions
Main Author: Cooper, Travis Warren (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2017]
In: Religions
Further subjects:B Social Anthropology
B the study of religion
B Categories
B Taxonomy
B normativity and values
B Structuralism
B Jonathan Z. Smith
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