Finally, in the conclusion! Maybe lead off with the fact this is a goal!
"Such an approach means giving up on the essentialist project of finding 'the' definition of religion. Religion could be deployed in nonessentialist ways to treat something as a religion for the purposes of analysis. Such a move would shift our mode of discourse. We would no longer ask the question 'Is phenomenon X a religion?'"
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2025-03-09 21:31:46Event JSON
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