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Wilfred Cantwell Smith was a Canadian scholar of comparative religion writing from a broadly liberal Protestant background; this book is a landmark in religious studies methodology rather than Christian theology. Readers should be aware it is primarily an academic deconstruction of the category 'religion' and not a work of Christian theology or devotion.
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Wilfred Cantwell Smith, maintained in this vastly important work that Westerners have misperceived religious life by making "religion" into one thing. He shows the inadequacy of "religion" to capture the living, endlessly variable ways and traditions in which religious faith presents itself in the world.
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