Eight Theories of Religion by Daniel L Pals
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.
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 religionEdwin Koster, International Journal in Philosophy and Theology
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195165708 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195165705 |
| Title | Eight Theories of Religion |
| Author | Daniel L Pals |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2006-01-12 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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