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Title |
Title of document |
Tradition as Cultural Transmission - Tradition |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Steven Engler; Mount Royal University; Canada |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Religious Studies |
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Keyword(s) |
study of religion; invention of tradition; categories in religion; concepts in religion; Robert Redfield; Edward Shils; Hobsbawm; Boyer |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
Religious Studies |
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Description |
Abstract |
This chapter will review theoretical approaches that look at tradition in terms of cultural transmission (cultural memory, epidemiology of representations, functionalist views from sociology, and cognitivist views within the study of religion). It will critique these views’ implicit assumptions about truth and representation (the accuracy of relations between the putative origin and the later reception of tradition). The goal is to make a case that, despite their importance, these approaches are not the most useful or relevant for the study of religion: an ideology-critical approach captures other issues that, I will argue, are more central. |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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01-Oct-2024 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/books/article/view/38402 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.38402 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Tradition |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |