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1938–2017 United States

Jonathan Zittell Smith (November 21, 1938 – December 30, 2017) was a historian of religions and Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities at the University of Chicago.

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Religion is not a native category. It is not a first-person term of self-characterization. It is a category imposed from the outside on some aspect of native culture.

Relating Religion (2004)

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