Anthropologist Clifford Geertz suggests that religion is essentially a system of ideas. What was this system of ideas surrounded by?

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Jackson Bray

27 September, 05:55

Anthropologist Clifford Geertz suggests that religion is essentially a system of ideas. What was this system of ideas surrounded by?

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Barbara Clayton · Answer 1

Anthropologist Clifford Geertz suggests that religion is essentially a system of ideas that surrounds a set of powerful Symbols.

These symbols are used in religion to acquire importance far beyond the actual material of which they are made and allows the believer to feel that this religious world is true and real.