Understanding theories of religion : an introduction / / Ivan Strenski

• Autore: Strenski Ivan
• Pubblicazione: Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015; ©2015
• Edizione: Second edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (894 p.)
• Disciplina: 200.7
• Soggetto topico: Religion - Methodology
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Revised edition of Thinking about religion / Ivan Strenski. 2006.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Understanding theories of religion
• ISBN: 1-118-45772-2; 1-118-45770-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459958303321
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