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Definitions of Religion

2023
Abstract This chapter examines Hobbes’s notorious definition of religion in Leviathan (1651/1668) together with the rather different definition given in De Homine (1658). Although the two definitions are not co-extensive, I argue that they do not contradict one other.
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The Definition of Religion

Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1970
INTERPRET my invitation to address the American Academy of Religion on the definition of its key concept, religion, as an opportunity to exercise several of what I believe to be my philosophical responsibilities. In this paper I reject, therefore, the currently popular view of the philosopher as technician, restricted in his proper function to the ...
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The Definition of Religion

2012
In my research and understanding, religion could be briefed concisely as “faith established between human and his God”, but God is, of course, the equivalent term for any transcendent Being.
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A Psychological Definition of Religion

The American Journal of Theology, 1912
No scientific disclipine can be credited with much accuracy until it has succeeded in defining its principal terms. While recent contributions to the still youthful field of the psychology of religion have made the problems clearer, and at least partially solved some of them, no definition that has yet been proffered has met with wide acceptance. It is
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An Operational Definition of Religion

Numen, 1961
For the science of religion, it is indispensable to have a definition of religion as the starting point of its study. The term science of religion may still be somewhat unfamiliar and sound strange. It only means an approach to the study of religion, using the empirical and scientific method. Basically, the science of religion is not different from any
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The contextualization of definitions of religion

International Review of Sociology, 2011
The author insists on the need to take the social-structural context into account to evaluate the existing types of definitions of religion. Proposing a definition for the Western hemisphere, he then checks his definition against sociological studies referring to ‘new types of religiosity’ and concludes that sociologists should differentiate between ...
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