Some con- clude that instead of attempting to define religion the study of religion\s should focus its efforts elsewhere: to “focus on deconstructing the category and analyzing its function within popular discourse” (Arnal 2000, 30); to abandon “the tendency to regard religion as a relatively well-define
This goes back to the main idea of whether or not a definition for the word religion is actually necessary or if we should instead stop devoting so much time and energy to that and now focus on breaking it down and analyzing other details. Although I do think it would be beneficial to have a definition, I also think this section makes a very good point because there are bigger things at hand, besides a simple definition.