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What Is the Significance for an Academic Approach to Religion

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What is the significance for an academic approach to religion of sociologist Peter Berger's comment on the challenge of defining religion, "a definition is not more or less true, only more or less useful"?


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Evaluating Options

The cognitive process of assessing and comparing different choices or courses of action before making a decision.

Linguistic Relativity

The hypothesis that the structure of a language affects its speakers' world view or cognition.

Cognitive Development

The process by which an individual's ability to think, reason, and understand the world develops through childhood into adulthood.

Social Communication

The process of exchanging information, both verbally and non-verbally, within a social context.

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