RLG101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Mircea Eliade, Presupposition, Stewart Guthrie
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Edward tylor, who gave a famous de nition of religion as the belief in spiritual beings" (tylor. 1871: 8: malcolm ruel (1982) argues in his article on christians as believers", there are considerable problems in applying the term belief" to muslim, jewish, and buddhist traditions, there are no direct translations in arabic, hebrew etc. "belief: problem: in assuming that religion is concerned with belief we are taking a primarily. Belief and reductionism: only recently have religions been viewed to have a central belief; wider change of modern language in power and knowledge. Essentially cognitive" (1993: 44): christianity in western europe and north america has been largely dominated by. 14: humankind unconsciously creates god in his/her own image. Cognitive approaches to religion and belief: luther martin (2005) distinguishes culturally based studies of religion from what he considers to be scienti c cognitive studies, the approach can: And express these explanations with some precision in ways in which they are.
