Memories of the Old Plantation Home: A Creole Family Album by Laura Locoul Gore
This volume explores the ways in which religion became the object of scientific research in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Most obvious is the development of an increasingly autonomous science of religion (with founding fathers like Max M ller and C.P. Tiele). However, within anthropology (Tylor, Frazer), sociology (Durkheim, Max Weber), and psychology (William James), religion also came to be seen as a separate entity to be studied comparatively. To capture this wide field this book focuses on the emergence of the discourse on religion in a broad academic context, among different disciplines. The emphasis is on general socio-historical developments, rather than on individual biographies.Part I deals with the institutionalization of science of religion in France, Britain, and the Netherlands. Part I focuses on boundary disputes between the emerging sciences of religion. Part I examines new conceptualizations of religion underlying the new endeavour (ritual, magic, survival).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780970559104 |
| ISBN 10 | 0970559100 |
| Title | Memories of the Old Plantation Home: A Creole Family Album |
| Author | Laura Locoul Gore |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The Zoe Company |
| Year published | 2000-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 172 |
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