Methodologies
Most sociologists and anthropologists who tend to see religion as inseparable from and determined by the social context resort to what is called 'methodological atheism': when explaining religion they reject divine or supernatural explanations for the status or origins of religions, because they are not testable.
The anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard preferred detailed ethnographical study of a tribe and their religion to form a theory about the tribe's religion over untestable speculation over the origins of religions by, for example, Müller, Tylor, and Durkheim, and what he termed 'armchair anthropologist'.
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