Anthropologist Clifford Geertz found that:
A) symbols used in religion acquire significance only for the actual material of which they are made and nothing more beyond that.
B) symbols used in religion acquire significance far beyond the actual material of which they are made and allow believers to feel that the religious world is truly real.
C) symbols are irrelevant to religious practice.
D) we cannot understand what makes religion work without understanding the authorizing processes that give symbols their power.
E) most definitions of religion are Eurocentric.
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