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THE CREATION OF GOD - RIK PINXTEN KARTONIERT (TB)

This book develops a scientific approach to the phenomenon of religion. It is the conviction of
the author that such an approach can only be comparative in nature  in order to overcome
centuries of religiously biased views on religion. From an anthropological point of view the
phenomenological school of thought is intrinsically religionistic (i.e.  influenced by a
particular religious frame of reference). The author formulates a model which seeks to
distinguish between three irreducible religious ways (ritualistic  mythagogic and shamanistic)
of which religious forms at the object level are composed. The typical characteristics of
religion in the theories of the religions of the book then appear as specific ('local') formats
next to and at the same level as any other religious manifestation in the world. In a second
hypothesis in the book  the primacy of action over language for the human species is argued
for. Here again  a local preference for verbal actions is identified in the religions of the
book. To develop a more generic view on religion  the author proposes to look at humans first
and foremost as acting subjects  with verbal actions as a subcategory.

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