In “Anthropology and Religion”, Robert L. Winzeler discusses religion and what it is in terms of the vast ranges of societies known to anthropology (1). He first discusses that terms for religion really do not exist in other places and are not necessarily the same within all of them (Winzeler, 2). For example, Winzeler says, “Neither the Chinese nor the Japanese have a single traditional term that is the simple equivalent of the Western notion of religion”, meaning that in both Japanese and Chinese there were different traditional terms used for different systems of practice and belief (Winzeler, 2). He goes on to say that even though many human societies lack a term for their religion in their language and “do not separate ‘religion’ from
