Religion : the modern theories
A comprehensive and approachable introduction to social scientific theories of religion as they have developed in the twentieth century.
Print Book, English, ©2003
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, ©2003
viii, 232 pages ; 25 cm
9780748615216, 9780748615223, 0748615210, 0748615229
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Karl Marx and cultural materialism
Emile Durkheim and functionalism
Max Weber
Sigmund Freud and the psychological tradition
Rudolf Otto : the idea of the holy
Sociology, methodological atheism and secularisation
Psychological approaches
Phenomenology and the history of religion
Feminism, gender and religion
Anthropological approaches to religion
Some final words
Ritual
Symbolism
Myth
Last words