|
" Understanding theories of religion / "
Ivan Strenski
| Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
643595
|
| Doc. No
|
:
|
dltt
|
| Uniform Title
|
:
|
Thinking about religion
|
| Main Entry
|
:
|
Strenski, Ivan
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
Understanding theories of religion /\ Ivan Strenski
|
| Edition Statement
|
:
|
Second edition
|
| Page. NO
|
:
|
ix, 268 pages ;; 25 cm
|
| ISBN
|
:
|
9781444330847
|
|
|
:
|
: 1444330845
|
| Notes
|
:
|
Revised editon of Thinking about religion / Ivan Strenski. 2006
|
| Bibliographies/Indexes
|
:
|
Includes bibliographical references and index
|
| Contents
|
:
|
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
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Religion-- Methodology
|
| Dewey Classification
|
:
|
200.7
|
| LC Classification
|
:
|
BL41.S72 2015
|
| |