There Isn't Belief, Just Believing

RethinkingBeliefas a Keyword of Folklore Studies

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2791771
AutoresBenjamin Gatling (0000-0003-1394-082X), Benjamin C Gatling (autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume133
Fascículo529
Páginas307-328
Data de publicação2020-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of American Folklore (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882
EditoraUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/jamerfolk.133.529.0307
OpenAlexW3037092976
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas60

Belief as a term in folklore scholarship encompasses a range of competing concepts. This article posits a number of problems with belief's standard usage: beliefs are reified and abstracted from social action; beliefs are systematized and explanatory of behavior; and beliefs are rendered as universal, cross-cultural features of social life. This article argues that reconceptualizing belief carries with it a decolonial justice imperative, and folklorists should jettison belief as a keyword of the discipline

Action (physics) · Belief system · Epistemology · Folklore · Political science · Scholarship · Social justice · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Social Psychology