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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kunin, Seth Daniel. Religion. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2003 (OCoLC)988875529 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Seth Daniel Kunin |
| ISBN: | 0748615210 9780748615216 0748615229 9780748615223 |
| OCLC Number: | 51031439 |
| Description: | viii, 232 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | Seth D. Kunin. |
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This introductory textbook is both challenging and rewarding. In summarising a great number of theories and interpretations of religion it covers in three parts a wider span of academic disciplines than is usually the case ! Not only is the book useful as an undergraduate text, available as a skeleton of reliable proportion on which class and teacher can work together but many a new postgraduate would do well to read it for an overview of religious studies. -- Douglas J. Davies, Professor in the Study of Religion, University of Durham This volume should serve as a splendid textbook for an undergraduate course in religion but Kunin's writing also makes it eminently accessible to the sophisticated lay reader. All in all this is a significant contribution to the field and a major contribution to the teaching of religion. -- Neil Gilman, Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York This introductory textbook is both challenging and rewarding. In summarising a great number of theories and interpretations of religion it covers in three parts a wider span of academic disciplines than is usually the case ! Not only is the book useful as an undergraduate text, available as a skeleton of reliable proportion on which class and teacher can work together but many a new postgraduate would do well to read it for an overview of religious studies. This volume should serve as a splendid textbook for an undergraduate course in religion but Kunin's writing also makes it eminently accessible to the sophisticated lay reader. All in all this is a significant contribution to the field and a major contribution to the teaching of religion. Read more...
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