"Are Meanings the Name of the Game? Religion as Symbolic Meaning and Religion as Power"
"Searching for symbolic meanings," Talal Asad says, "is not the name of my game." In putting things like this, Asad leads us to believe that the approach to the study of religion he favors, which focuses on social power, is at odds with the approach Clifford Geertz advances, whic...
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Wiley-Blackwell
2012
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Religion compass
Year: 2012, Volume: 6, Issue: 12, Pages: 525-533 |
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