Universal srevisited: Human behaviors and cultural variations

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Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 276-289

  Paden, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

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EID: 85013396606     PISSN: 00295973     EISSN: 15685276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156852701752245578     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (25)

1. Clyde Kluckhohn, "Universal Categories of Culture," in A.L. Kroeber et al., Anthropology Today: An Encyclopedic Inventory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953), 521.
2. A representative post-classical review of the concept of comparison in anthropology is Ladislav Holy, ed., Comparative Anthropology (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987).
3. Donald E. Brown, Human Universals (New York: McGraw Hill, 1991
4. Cf. Pascal Boyer, The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994);
5. and E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley, Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
6. Walter Burkert, Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996).
7. Wallace, Religion: An AnthropologicalView (New York: RandomHouse, 1966), 52-67.
8. "Religion, Post-Religionism, and Religionizing: Religious Studies and Contemporary Cultural Debates," in Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 12: 447-476.
9. J.Z. Smith, Differential Equations: On Constructing the "Other," Thirteenth Annual University Lecture in Religion (Tempe: Arizona State University, 1992), 11.
10. To use the terminology of Robin Fox, in The Search for Society: Quest for a Biosocial Science and Morality (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1989), 20ff, 116ff;
11. Lionel Tiger and Robin Fox, The Imperial Animal (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971), 1-23.
12. Joseph Lopreato, Human Nature and Biocultural Evolution (Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1984).
13. Ward H. Goodenough, Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology (Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1970).
14. Robin Fox, The Red Lamp of Incest (New York: Dutton, 1980), 7.
15. One thinks here of Jonathan Z. Smith's work on the concept of ingenuity or "cuisine" in Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), 36-52.
16. As Timothy Fitzgerald af. rms, in his The Ideology of Religious Studies (New York: Oxford University, Press, 2000).
17. I elaborate on these points in my "Religion, World, Plurality," in Thomas A. Idinopulos and Brian C. Wilson (eds.), What is Religion? Origins, Definitions, and Explanations, Studies in the History of Religions Vol. LXXXI (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 91-106.
18. I have tried to describe some of this in my Religious Worlds: The Comparative Study of Religion, 2d ed. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1994)
19. in "Elements of a New Comparativism," in Kimberley C. Patton and Benjamin C. Ray (eds.), A Magic Still Dwells: Comparative Religion in the Postmodern Age (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 182-192.
20. Varieties of Religious Experience:A Study in Human Nature (New York: Penguin Books, 1982), 24.
21. "Review Symposium: Benson Saler's Conceptualizing Religion," in Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 12-1/2 (2000), 307-313, and 328-332.
22. Mark Hobart, "Summer's Days and Salad Days: The Coming of Age of Anthropology?," in Ladislav Holy (ed.), Comparative Anthropology (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987), 39.
23. I refer of course to E.O. Wilson's term, from his Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (New York: Vintage Books, 1999).
24. Benson Saler, "Biology and Religion: On Establishing a Problematic," in Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 11: 386-394 (1999).
25. Michael Carrithers, Why Humans Have Cultures: Explaining Anthropology and Social Diversity (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 86, n. 17.