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The quest for natural religion -- Biblical criticism and the critique of religion -- The shock of the old : Max Muller's search for the soul of Europe -- The shock of the "savage" : Edward Burnett Tylor, evolution and spirits -- Evolution in the religion of the Bible : William Robertson Smith -- Setting the eternal templates of salvation : James George Frazer -- From evolution to religious experience : phenomenology of religion -- Religious experience creates the world of the modern economy : Max Weber -- Tales from the underground : Freud and the psychoanalytic origins of religion -- Malinowski and functionalism : religion is what religion does -- Seeing the sacred with the social eye : Emile Durkheim's "religious sociology" -- Mircea Eliade : the "worm of doubt" turns