The Metaphor of “Distance” in the Study of Religion: Four Case Studies

In this paper, the nature of the relationship between the scholar of religion and her subject is described by using the metaphor “distance” and identifying the multi-faceted appearances of the metaphor in the study of religion. Four celebrated works by Eliade, Lévi-Strauss, Müller and Durkheim are t...

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