November 5, 2004
Misunderstood Concepts
Defining ReligionMark C. Taylor, a professor of humanities at Williams College, visiting professor of architecture and religion at Columbia University, and author of Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World Without Redemption (University of Chicago Press, 2004):
The most misunderstood concept in the study of religion is religion. The field of religious studies -- if it is a field -- is in a perpetual state of crisis because it can neither define its object of
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