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- Title
Reply to the Responses.
- Authors
Seiwert, Hubert
- Abstract
I respect those of my colleagues who see it as the central task of theories in the study of religion to specify what religion is and to understand religion as a phenomenon. I am grateful to the six colleagues who responded so thoughtfully to my article on theory of religion and historical research. However, he criticises my view that religion should be considered a theoretical concept that provides the perspective from which scholars of religion do research. Of course, we can shift our interest to explaining why many people in many societies had and have faith in non-empirical entities, but this would explain faith and not religion.
- Subjects
SOCIAL reality; PROPAGANDA; ESOTERICISM; CONSPIRACY theories; RELIGIOUS articles
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft, 2021, Vol 29, Issue 2, p290
- ISSN
0943-8610
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/zfr-2021-0029