Eight Theories of Religion
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 23 February 2006
- ISBN 9780195165708
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 209x140x15 mm
- Weight 404 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Eight Theories of Religion offers summary, analysis, and appraisal of a number of landmark modern efforts to explain the origin and function of religion. Beginning in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, it considers the Victorian anthropology of E.B. Tylor and James Frazer, the "reductionist" social science of Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, and Karl Marx, the non-reductionist approaches of Max Weber and Mircea Eliade, and the alternatice paradigms
that have arisen from the fieldwork of E.E. Evans-Pritchard and the interpretive sociology of Clifford Geertz. The book is ideal for use as a supplementary text in introductory religion courses or as the main text in theory and sociology of religion courses.
Long description:
Eight Theories of Religion offers summary, analysis, and appraisal of a number of landmark modern efforts to explain the origin and function of religion. Beginning in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, it considers the Victorian anthropology of E.B. Tylor and James Frazer, the "reductionist" social science of Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, and Karl Marx, the non-reductionist approaches of Max Weber and Mircea Eliade, and the alternatice paradigms
that have arisen from the fieldwork of E.E. Evans-Pritchard and the interpretive sociology of Clifford Geertz. The book is ideal for use as a supplementary text in introductory religion courses or as the main text in theory and sociology of religion courses.
This is a very valuable textbook for students of religious studies or theology, but also for scholars who are in need of a first introduction to the study of religion.
Table of Contents:
Animism and Magic
E.B. Tylor and J.G. Frazer
Religion and Personality
Sigmund Freud
Society as Sacred
Emile Durkheim
Religion as Alienation
Karl Marx
A Source of Social Action
Max Weber
The Reality of the Sacred
Mircea Eliade
Society's "Construct of the Heart"
E.E. Evans-Pritchard
Religion as Cultural System
Clifford Geertz
Conclusion
Index
