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"Religion is not a native category. It is not a first-person term of self-characterization. It is a category imposed from the outside on some aspect of native culture."
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Jonathan Z. Smith
Jonathan Z. Smith
Jonathan Z. Smith
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Jonathan Zittell Smith, also known as J Z Smith, was an American historian of religions He was based at the University of Chicago for most of his career His research included work on such diverse topics as Christian origins, the theory of ritual, Hellenistic religions, Maaori cults in the 19th century, and the mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, as well as methodological studies on such common s
