1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996393780203316

Titolo

More later and trver newes from Somersetshire, Boston, Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire [[electronic resource] ] : wherein declared the trecherous and barbarous cruelty of the cavaleers in those parts, by the Marquesse of Hartford : and the taking of Colonel Gearings Lievtenant and 40 cavaleers at Salisbury : also relation of the countries pounding up of the Marquesse of Hartford and Sir Ralph Hopton with their followers in a moore surrounded with water : with the votes of Parliament upon the kings proclaiming the Earle of Essex and all that serve under his command, or adherer to him traitors : and the Earle of Essex resolution thereupon : as also three propositions brought to the major and aldermen of Boston from His Majesty by Sir Iohn Munson, knight and baroner, August 10, with the answer of the said major and aldermen to the message and propositions

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for R. A., August 16, 1642

Descrizione fisica

[8] p

Soggetti

Boston (England) History

Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649

Nottingham (England) History

Somerset (England) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0158



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910796934603321

Autore

Strenski Ivan

Titolo

Understanding theories of religion : an introduction / / Ivan Strenski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015

2015

ISBN

1-394-26101-2

1-118-45772-2

1-118-45770-6

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (894 p.)

Collana

New York Academy of Sciences

Classificazione

161.1

200.7

Disciplina

200.7

Soggetti

Religion - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revised ed.: 2006

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Dedication page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface to the Second Edition; 1 Introduction; A New Kind of Method and Theory Book; From Religion to the "Problems of Religion"; But Why Did They Think That They Were Right?; Leading Questions: On Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees; References; PART I: The Prehistory of the Study of Religion; 2 Jean Bodin and Herbert of Cherbury; Forming a Common Mind about Religion in Early Modern Europe; Natural Religion, Naturism, the Religion of Nature, and Revealed Religion; Religious Wars, the New World, and the Concept of Religion

A Time of Problems and Creative Ferment TooJean Bodin: Comparing Law Teaches Us How To Compare Religions; The True Religion Must Be the Oldest Religion; Natural Religion Is the Essence of Religion: Herbert of Cherbury; Herbert's "Ambidextrous" Theory of Natural Religion; References; Further Reading; 3 Understanding Religion Also Began with Trying to Understand the Bible; The Bible's New Readers: Skeptics and Seekers; "Frodo Lives!" Myth, History, and Mystery; Biblical Criticism's New Methods; Higher Criticism: Internal Discrepancies; Spinoza



Major Protestant Players: Ferdinand Christian Baur and the Tübingen SchoolThe Quest for the Historical Jesus: David Friedrich Strauss; What E.B. Tylor and Max Müller Learned from the Biblical Critics; References; Further Reading; PART II: Classic Nineteenth-Century Theorists of the Study of Religion; 4 Max Müller, the Comparative Study of Religion, and the Search for Other Bibles in India; Max Müller in the Center of a Whirlwind; The Bible and Beyond; Müller's Theological Liberalism and Comparison of Religions; The Discovery of the East-West Link in Sanskrit

Max Müller's "Romantic" Comparativism and Western ImperialismThe Search for Germany's National Soul in India ... of All Places; German Unity via Hindu Myth; What Max Müller Can Teach Us about Studying Religion; References; Further Reading; 5 The Shock of the "Savage"; Mr. Tylor and His Science; Animism as the True Natural Religion and First Attempts at Science; 1859 and All That: The Discovery of the European "Primitive"; The Caves and Their Religion; Does Religious or Cultural Evolution Make Sense?; We Have Met the Primitives, and "They" Are "Us"; References; Further Reading

6 The Religion of the Bible EvolvesThe Religion of the Bible and Its Problems; The Great Renown and Short Heretical Life of William Robertson Smith; Abdullah Effendi Smith of Arabia; Robertson Smith's "Arabian Revolution" in the Study of Religion; Robertson Smith and Higher Criticism: Wellhausen, Comparison, and Context; Smith's Lectures on the Religion of the Semites; Robertson Smith Can Still Teach Us a Lot; References; Further Reading; 7 Setting the Eternal Templates of Salvation; The Long Life and Great Renown of Sir James Frazer; How Did We Get from "There" to "Here" ... Again?

From Magic to Religion to Technology, Not Science