1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910823361703321

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00201083

Autore

DILLON, Myles

Titolo

Celts and Aryans : survivals of Indo-European speech and society / by Myles Dillon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Simla, : Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1975

Descrizione fisica

xxvi, 153 p., 24 p. di tav. ; 21 cm.

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

LINGUE INDOEUROPEE - Storia

Linguistica

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia