Understanding Theories of Religion An Introduction.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Strenski, Ivan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2015.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Second Edition: Understanding, Instead of Just Thinking
  • Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding Theories of Religion Is Better than Just Being Critical
  • A New Kind of Method and Theory Book
  • From Religion to the "Problems of Religion"
  • But Why Did They Think That They Were Right?
  • Leading Questions: On Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees
  • References
  • Part I The Prehistory of the Study of Religion: Responses to an Expanding World
  • Chapter 2 Jean Bodin and Herbert of Cherbury: True Religion, Essential Religion, and Natural Religion
  • Forming a Common Mind about Religion in Early Modern Europe
  • Natural Religion, Naturism, the Religion of Nature, and Revealed Religion
  • Religious Wars, the New World, and the Concept of Religion
  • A Time of Problems and Creative Ferment Too
  • Jean Bodin: Comparing Law Teaches Us How To Compare Religions
  • The True Religion Must Be the Oldest Religion
  • Natural Religion Is the Essence of Religion: Herbert of Cherbury
  • Herbert's "Ambidextrous" Theory of Natural Religion
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 3 Understanding Religion Also Began with Trying to Understand the Bible
  • The Bible's New Readers: Skeptics and Seekers
  • "Frodo Lives!" Myth, History, and Mystery
  • Biblical Criticism's New Methods
  • Higher Criticism: Internal Discrepancies
  • Spinoza
  • Major Protestant Players: Ferdinand Christian Baur and the Tübingen School
  • The Quest for the Historical Jesus: David Friedrich Strauss
  • What E.B. Tylor and Max Müller Learned from the Biblical Critics
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • Part II Classic Nineteenth-Century Theorists of the Study of Religion: The Quest for the Origins of Religion in History
  • Chapter 4 Max Müller, the Comparative Study of Religion, and the Search for Other Bibles in India
  • Max Müller in the Center of a Whirlwind
  • The Bible and Beyond
  • Müller's Theological Liberalism and Comparison of Religions
  • The Discovery of the East-West Link in Sanskrit
  • Max Müller's "Romantic" Comparativism and Western Imperialism
  • The Search for Germany's National Soul in India ... of All Places
  • German Unity via Hindu Myth
  • What Max Müller Can Teach Us about Studying Religion
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 5 The Shock of the "Savage":: Edward Burnett Tylor, Evolution, and Spirits
  • Mr. Tylor and His Science
  • Animism as the True Natural Religion and First Attempts at Science
  • 1859 and All That: The Discovery of the European "Primitive"
  • The Caves and Their Religion
  • Does Religious or Cultural Evolution Make Sense?
  • We Have Met the Primitives, and "They" Are "Us"
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 6 The Religion of the Bible Evolves: William Robertson Smith

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