Understanding theories of religion : an introduction / Ivan Strenski.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Thinking about religion
Main Author: Strenski, Ivan (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
Edition:Second edition.
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Physical Description:ix, 268 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Introduction: Understanding theories of religion is better than just being critical -- Part I. The prehistory of the study of religion: responses to an expanding world. Jean Bodin and Herbert of Cherbury: true religion, essential religion, and natural religion -- Understanding religion also began with trying to understand the Bible -- Part II. Classic nineteenth-century theorists of the study of religion: the quest for the origins of religion in history. Max Müller, the comparative study of religion, and the search for other Bibles in India -- The shock of the "savage": Edward Burnett Tylor, evolution, and spirits -- The religion of the Bible evolves: William Robertson Smith -- Setting the eternal templates of salvation: James Frazer -- Part III. Classic twentieth-century theorists of the study of religion: defending the inner sanctum of religious experience or storming it. Understanding how to understand religion: "phenomenology of religion" -- How religious experience created capitalism: Max Weber -- Tales from the underground: Freud and the psychoanalytic origins of religion -- Bronislaw Malinowski and the "sublime folly" of religion -- Seeing God with the social eye: Durkheim's religious sociology -- Mircea Eliade: turning back the "worm of doubt" -- Part IV. Liberation and post-modernism: race, gender, post-colonialism, the discourse on power. From modernism to post-modernism: mostly Michel Foucault -- Theorizing religion with race in mind: prophecy or curiosity? -- Sex/gender and women: feminists theorizing religion -- Another "otherness": post-colonial theories of religion -- Conclusion: being "smart" about bringing "religion" back in. 
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