Modelled on Oxford's highly successful Seven Theories of Human Nature , this book is a brief and cogent introductions to seven classic theories of religion. Accessible and succinct, it covers the most important figures in the modern scientific study of religion. Two Victorians, E.B. Tylor and James Frazer, initiate the narrative, which then explores the controversial "reductionist" approaches of Freud, Marx, and Emile Durkheim, moves on to their most outspoken opponent, Mircea Eliade, and concludes with the novel ideas of ...
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Modelled on Oxford's highly successful Seven Theories of Human Nature , this book is a brief and cogent introductions to seven classic theories of religion. Accessible and succinct, it covers the most important figures in the modern scientific study of religion. Two Victorians, E.B. Tylor and James Frazer, initiate the narrative, which then explores the controversial "reductionist" approaches of Freud, Marx, and Emile Durkheim, moves on to their most outspoken opponent, Mircea Eliade, and concludes with the novel ideas of anthropologists E.E. Evans-Pritchard and Clifford Geertz. For each chapter Pals offers a biographical sketch of the theorist and his time, explains how each one saw religion as an intellectual problem, and finally shows how they came to viable conclusions as to the nature of religious belief. The author appraises the strengths and influence of each system, and pays particular attention on the arguments per se.
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