Introducing religion :readings from the classic theorists
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
/ [edited by] Daniel L. Pals
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York; Oxford
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: Oxford University Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxvi, 374 p.
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-374)
CONTENTS NOTE
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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