Definir la religión desde una perspectiva internacional: identidad y diferencia en las concepciones oficiales

Within sociology of religion, the debate in regards to the way in which religion should be defined has followed a quite consistent course. The thing such discussions have in common has been –historically and internationally– the possibility of agreeing on one definition, which is able to cover all t...

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Autor principal: Peter Beyer
Formato: Artículo científico
Publicado: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa 2006
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Acceso en línea:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=74703202
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=mx/mx-023&d=74703202oai
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topic Antropología
religion
individual faith
orientalist projection
institutionally differentiated social domain
official conception of religion
spellingShingle Antropología
religion
individual faith
orientalist projection
institutionally differentiated social domain
official conception of religion
Peter Beyer
Definir la religión desde una perspectiva internacional: identidad y diferencia en las concepciones oficiales
topic_facet Antropología
religion
individual faith
orientalist projection
institutionally differentiated social domain
official conception of religion
description Within sociology of religion, the debate in regards to the way in which religion should be defined has followed a quite consistent course. The thing such discussions have in common has been –historically and internationally– the possibility of agreeing on one definition, which is able to cover all those social phenomena that observers believe should be considered as religion. Nevertheless, when using it as category of social observation, there is a risk of distorting reality, fact that leads towards the need of distinguishing religion from individual faith as well as from orientalist projection. This work attempts to conceive religion as an institutionally differentiated social domain in order to clarify those social aspects, which define it as such. By placing religion as an idea and a social structure of European modernity as well as a non-European parallel appropriation, this paper examines the development of the “official” conception of religion within diverse countries or regions particularly considering the semantic and institutional aspects. Thus, through the analysis of five representative cases worldwide, this work offers a direct path to get to what actually counts as religion.
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author Peter Beyer
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title Definir la religión desde una perspectiva internacional: identidad y diferencia en las concepciones oficiales
title_short Definir la religión desde una perspectiva internacional: identidad y diferencia en las concepciones oficiales
title_full Definir la religión desde una perspectiva internacional: identidad y diferencia en las concepciones oficiales
title_fullStr Definir la religión desde una perspectiva internacional: identidad y diferencia en las concepciones oficiales
title_full_unstemmed Definir la religión desde una perspectiva internacional: identidad y diferencia en las concepciones oficiales
title_sort definir la religión desde una perspectiva internacional: identidad y diferencia en las concepciones oficiales
publisher Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa
publishDate 2006
url http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=74703202
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