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Eight Theories of Religion - Softcover

Pals, Daniel L.

 
9780195165708: Eight Theories of Religion
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0195165705 ISBN 13: 9780195165708
Publisher: OUP USA, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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Review

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. (Edwin Koster, International Journal in Philosophy and Theology)

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Publisher
OUP USA
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195165705
ISBN 13 
9780195165708
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
352