“Secondary elaboration” describes which of the following?

a) Approaching an event through scientific principles.
b) Explaining away inconsistencies or contradictions in a set of beliefs.
c) The underlying meaning that is found in myth.
d) The symbolic rituals that anchor social relations.


ANS: B

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