Jonathan Z. Smith’s scientific contributions

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Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown
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March 1984

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367 Citations

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

Thomas E. Dowdy

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Jonathan Z. Smith

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... (3) Religion as social relations, which is a sociological reading of religion as a complex of social relations that connects not only individuals with fellow believers and a community (Woodhead 2004) but also ancestors, the spirits of the dead, and supernatural entities (Klass 2018). (4) Religion as practice, which is an anthropological perspective of religion as rituals (Rappaport 1999;Smith 1982), quotidian practice (Ammerman 2007), and popular or folk practices. (5) Religion as Power, which is a critical reading of religion as a form of power relations (Foucault 1980), different forms of capital (Putnam 2000), resources of the state (Poggi 2001), and modes of recognition and status. ...

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Navigating queerness and religion in India: a phenomenological queer ethnography
Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown
  • Citing Article
  • March 1984

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion