Thomas Bargatzky: The “Work of the Gods” and an “Im-possibly Complex Scenario” On Leiturgy and Religion
Abstract
In anthropology and related cultural sciences, it is generally agreed that there are no people without religion. The value of the term religion as a generic term covering all kinds of relating to superhuman beings should be called into question, however, since it covers two systematically and historically distinguishable complexes, namely, “leiturgy” reflecting polytheism and religion in the narrower sense, reflecting monotheism. The indiscriminate and Eurocentric use of the term religion is labelled “religionism.”
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