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The meaning and end of religion

Wilfred Cantwell Smith, maintained in this vastly important work that Westerners have misperceived religious life by making "religion" into one thing. He shows the inadequacy of "religion" to capture the living, endlessly variable ways and traditions in which religious faith presents itself in the world
eBook, English, 1991
Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 1991
1 online resource (xii, 345 pages)
9781451420142, 1451420145
1241558643
Print version:
"Religion" in the West
Other cultures: "the religions"
Special case of Islam
Is the concept adequate?
Cumulative tradition
Faith