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Book: Method Today

Chapter: 11. In Pursuit of a Pushier Study of Those Words we Like to Put in Quotes

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.34429

Blurb:

Goldenberg’s “pushier critique” rightly places an emphasis on the importance of ‘governance’ for understanding the category ‘religion’ in various historical and geographical locations. It is not clear, however, that “institutions of government” play a major role in constructing and maintaining ‘religion,’ or that either “vestigial states” or ‘violence’ are as central for theorizing ‘religion’ as has been suggested.

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