In this commentary, I argue that we need to expose the multiple layers of historical thinking about the production of the category of religion that play into both our scholarly thinking and the way religion is lived, understood and fought for in the lives of our informants. We can no more take the contours (or limits) of any particular religion for granted, or as self‐evident, than we can take the category of religion, named as such, as a natural human phenomenon that is somehow free from the domain of culture.

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宗教的比较人类学，或比较的宗教人类学：批评评论

在这篇评论中，我认为我们需要揭露关于宗教范畴产生的历史性多层面思考，这既影响了我们的学术思想，又影响了我们线人生活中宗教的生存，理解和斗争方式。我们再也不能将任何特定宗教的轮廓（或界限）视为理所当然或不言而喻的，我们不能将宗教的类别（如此命名）视为某种自然的人类现象，而这种现象在某种程度上不受限制。文化。