Introducing religion :readings from the classic theorists
[Book]
/ [edited by] Daniel L. Pals
New York; Oxford
: Oxford University Press
, 2009.
xxvi, 374 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-374)
Introduction -- Animism and the origin of religion / E.B. Tylor -- Magic and the rise of religion / James Frazer -- Religion as neurosis / Sigmund Freud -- The social as sacred / Emile Durkheim -- Religion as agent of economic oppression / Karl Marx -- The testimony of religious experience / William James -- Religion and the sense of the "numinous" / Rudolf Otto -- Religion and culture interwoven / Max Weber -- Religion as response to the sacred / Mircea Eliade -- Primitive religion and modern theories / E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- Religion as world-view and ethic / Clifford Geertz