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Paul Tillich – Religion as “Ultimate Concern”

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Paul Tillich – Religion as the Manifestation of the “Depth Dimension”

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Peter Berger – Religion as Establishing a “Sacred Cosmos”

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What Are Religious and Secular Symbols?

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The Characteristics of Religious Fundamentalism

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What is Heresy?

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Talal Asad: Religion as a ‘Discursive Tradition’

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William Robertson Smith – “Primitive” Religion and Higher Biblical Criticism

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