Concept information
Preferred term
religious power
Definition
- Reference to power of one sort of another is remarkably common in the study of religion. For some early anthropologists, the recognition of power or magical powers in extraordinary things, events, or individuals was the primordial experience out of which religion developed. [Source: Encyclopedia of Power; Religious Power]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/religious_power
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