ČO S POVERAMI ALEBO KDE SÚ HRANICE KATEGÓRIÍ?

• Authors: Bahna Vladimír

Title variants

EN

What to do with folk beliefs or where are the boundaries of categories?

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with the problems of terminology and classification of folk beliefs. The author shows that relevant terminology used by the Slovak scholars is unstable and rather intuitive. Few years ago a new proposal for classification of the folk beliefs came out from the field of religious studies. Basing on the fuzzy set theory, the author claims that the social and cultural categories do not need the sharp boundaries. He confronts the new classification with the theories of cognitive science of religion, in particular with the cognitive theory of Pascal Boyer and the theory of the religious modes of Harvey Whitehouse.

Keywords

EN

COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF RELIGION; FOLK BELIEFS; FUZZY SETS THEORY; RELIGIOUS STUDIES; TERMINOLOGY

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Ethnological Society, and Slovak National Museum - Ethnological Museum (in Martin)
• Journal: Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 11-24
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Bahna Vladimír

• V. Bahna, for postal address contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08SKAAAA05199865