Sociology, Volume 35Clarendon Press, 2001 - Sociology |
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... idea , and it may be this category - of entertaining the idea - that the statistics represent . All this indicates that reincarnation is not an exotic , fringe belief , but an idea that is being explored by a significant minority of ...
... idea , and it may be this category - of entertaining the idea - that the statistics represent . All this indicates that reincarnation is not an exotic , fringe belief , but an idea that is being explored by a significant minority of ...
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... idea of reincarnation has probably been entertained by human beings throughout history , whether or not it is part of the official belief system of their society ; the meanings given to the idea , however , are likely to be culture ...
... idea of reincarnation has probably been entertained by human beings throughout history , whether or not it is part of the official belief system of their society ; the meanings given to the idea , however , are likely to be culture ...
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... idea that culture is universally constitutive of social relations and identities . I shall refer to this as the ' epistemological ' case for culture . Secondly , the claim that in contemporary society culture plays an unprecedented role ...
... idea that culture is universally constitutive of social relations and identities . I shall refer to this as the ' epistemological ' case for culture . Secondly , the claim that in contemporary society culture plays an unprecedented role ...
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