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    This article discusses the difficulty in defining religion and ritual. It argues that rituals cannot be reduced to their basic functions or stripped of their cultural meanings. Rituals are best understood through thick description that acknowledges their complexity and ambiguity.

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    This article discusses the difficulty in defining religion and ritual. It argues that rituals cannot be reduced to their basic functions or stripped of their cultural meanings. Rituals are best understood through thick description that acknowledges their complexity and ambiguity.

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    Jonathan Z Smith, The Bare Facts of Ritual PDF

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    This article discusses the difficulty in defining religion and ritual. It argues that rituals cannot be reduced to their basic functions or stripped of their cultural meanings. Rituals are best understood through thick description that acknowledges their complexity and ambiguity.

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    Jonathan Z.

    Smith, The Bare Facts of Ritual,


    Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown
    (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), pp.
    53-65, 143-5.

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