04775nam 2200649 450 991045995830332120200520144314.01-118-45772-21-118-45770-6(CKB)3710000000370129(EBL)1964059(SSID)ssj0001438975(PQKBManifestationID)12623917(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001438975(PQKBWorkID)11378579(PQKB)11312472(PQKBManifestationID)16047344(PQKB)22930568(DLC) 2014032138(MiAaPQ)EBC1964059(Au-PeEL)EBL1964059(CaPaEBR)ebr11052844(CaONFJC)MIL786006(OCoLC)912317892(EXLCZ)99371000000037012920150521h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUnderstanding theories of religion an introduction /Ivan StrenskiSecond edition.Chichester, England ;Malden, Massachusetts :Wiley Blackwell,2015.©20151 online resource (894 p.)Revised edition of Thinking about religion / Ivan Strenski. 2006.1-4443-3084-5 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.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 ReligionA 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; SpinozaMajor 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 SanskritMax 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 Reading6 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 ScienceReligionMethodologyElectronic books.ReligionMethodology.200.7Strenski Ivan615497MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459958303321Understanding theories of religion2140435UNINA