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Religion : the modern theories /

By: Material type: TextTextAnalytics: Show analyticsPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2003Description: viii, 232 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780801877278
  • 080187727X
  • 0801877288
  • 9780801877285
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 200.1 K96R 21
LOC classification:
  • BL51 .K83 2003
Contents:
Karl Marx and cultural materialism -- Emile Durkheim and functionalism -- Max Weber -- Sigmund Freud and the psychological tradition -- Rudolf Otto : the idea of the holy -- Sociology, methodological atheism and secularisation -- Psychological approaches -- Phenomenology and the history of religion -- Feminism, gender and religion -- Anthropological approaches to religion -- Some final words -- Ritual -- Symbolism -- Myth -- Last words
Summary: Over the course of the twentieth century, the way we understand the religious experience has been transformed. Various thinkers and intellectual approaches have shaped the ways in which scholars examine rituals, symbols, and belief systems. In."
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index

Karl Marx and cultural materialism -- Emile Durkheim and functionalism -- Max Weber -- Sigmund Freud and the psychological tradition -- Rudolf Otto : the idea of the holy -- Sociology, methodological atheism and secularisation -- Psychological approaches -- Phenomenology and the history of religion -- Feminism, gender and religion -- Anthropological approaches to religion -- Some final words -- Ritual -- Symbolism -- Myth -- Last words

Over the course of the twentieth century, the way we understand the religious experience has been transformed. Various thinkers and intellectual approaches have shaped the ways in which scholars examine rituals, symbols, and belief systems. In."

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