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secondary elaboration of belief: a standalone construct

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Anthropology of religion

Evans-Pritchard's term for the ways people explain away failures of an oracle or rite within the belief system, so the system as a whole is not doubted.

In anthropology of religion, secondary elaboration of belief refers to Evans-Pritchard's term for the ways people explain away failures of an oracle or rite within the belief system, so the system as a whole is not doubted. This meaning comes from Evans-Pritchard (1937) in Witchcraft, oracles and magic among the Azande.[1]

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References

Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (1937). Witchcraft, oracles and magic among the Azande. Clarendon Press. Open Library record

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