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Definition: More a method than an actual philosophy, structuralism has been used in both linguistics and sociology as part of an effort to find greater understanding in general structures rather than in details. In linguistics, for example, structuralism means describing language in terms of structural components like morphology. In sociology, Claude Levi-Strauss promoted the method of structuralism as an attempt to better understand observed social phenomena through the underlying structures of social organization.
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What is Theism?
What is the difference between monotheism and monolatry? Between pantheism and panentheism? How about between animism and shamanism? Or theism and deism? What the heck is henotheism? For that matter, what is and is not a religion?What is Religion?
A system of human beliefs, ideals and practices which is harder to define than it may at first appear.
