MANY SAY THE ETYMOLOGY OF RELIGION LIES WITH THE LATIN WORD RELIGARE Many say the etymology of religion lies with the Latin word religare, which means “to tie, to bind.” This seems to be favored on

MANY SAY THE ETYMOLOGY OF RELIGION LIES WITH THE LATIN WORD RELIGARE Many say the etymology of religion lies with the Latin word religare, which means “to tie, to bind.” This seems to be favored on

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MANY SAY THE ETYMOLOGY OF RELIGION LIES WITH THE LATIN WORD RELIGARE

Many say the etymology of religion lies with the Latin word religare, which means “to tie, to bind.” This seems to be favored on the assumption that it helps explain the power religion has. The Oxford English Dictionary points out, though, that the etymology of the word is doubtful. Earlier writers like Cicero connected the term with relegere, which means “to read over again” (perhaps to emphasize the ritualistic nature of religions?).

Some argue that religion doesn’t really exist — there is only culture. Jonathan Z. Smith writes in Imagining Religion: “...while there is a staggering amount of data, phenomena, of human experiences and expressions that might be characterized in one culture or another, by one criterion or another, as religion — there is no data for religion. Religion is solely the creation of the scholar’s study. It is created for the scholar’s analytic purposes by his imaginative acts of comparison and generalization. Religion has