Religion in the making : the emergence of the sciences of religion
This volume deals with the emergence of a scientific discourse on religion in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe and North America. This process is examined in a broad academic context, among different disciplines, in terms of socio-historical developments.
Studies in the history of religions, 80, v. 80
Kongress Amsterdam 1997
xii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9789004112391, 9004112391
39516236
Sciences of religion in France during the July monarchy (1830-1848) / Michel Despland
The foundations of the study of religion in the British context / Peter Byrne
Transforming theology : the institutionalization of the science of religion in the Netherlands / Arie L. Molendijk
The science of religion and theology : the question of their interrelationship / Sigurd Hjelde
J.G. Frazer and the Cambridge ritualists and the "scientific" study of religion / Robert Ackerman
The ironies of Fin-de-Siècle rebellions against historicism and empiricism in the École pratique des hautes études, fifth section / Ivan Strenski
Rethinking the rise and fall of the psychology of religion / David M. Wulff
How religion became scientific / Robert J. Baird
Religion posed as a racial category. A reading of Émile Burnouf, Adolph Moses, and Eliza Sunderland / Miriam Peskowitz
The emergence of the academic science of magic : the occult philosophy in Tylor and Frazer / Wouter J. Hanegraaff
British roots of the concept of ritual / Barbara Boudewijnse
Survivals : conceiving of religious history in an age of development / Hans G. Kippenberg
Papers from a conference held May 22-24, 1997 at the University of Amsterdam