Publication Date

November 2007

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History of Religions is published by the University of Chicago Press, and reprinted here with permission. For more information on this publisher, please visit their website.

Abstract

In his “Introduction” to Imagining Religion, Jonathan Z. Smith contends that second-order reflection on religion—imagining religion per se—is a relatively recent human endeavor.1 It is one, of course, that has engaged ourgroup of essayists—indeed, as our life’s work and preoccupation. It is also the issue at stake in this essay: how human behaviors and groups are distinguished and labeled.

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Religion

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Religion Commons

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