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Author(s): Daniel L. Pals
ISBN(s): 9780199859092, 0199859094
Edition: 3
File Details: PDF, 19.74 MB
Year: 2015
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0199859094 
ISBN 13: 9780199859092
Author: Daniel L Pals

Why do human beings believe in divinities? Why do some seek eternal life, while others seek escape from recurring lives? Why do the beliefs and behaviors we typically call “religious” so deeply affect the human personality and so subtly weave their way through human society?Revised and updated in this third edition, Nine Theories of Religion considers how these fundamental questions have engaged the most important thinkers of the modern era. Accessible, systematic, and succinct, it considers the Victorian anthropology of E. B. Tylor and J. G. Frazer, the “reductionist” social science of Sigmund Freud, Émile Durkheim, and Karl Marx, the non-reductionist approaches of Max Weber, William James, and Mircea Eliade, and the alternative paradigms that have arisen from the work of E. E. Evans-Pritchard and Clifford Geertz. The third edition features a new chapter on William James. Each chapter offers biographical background, theoretical exposition, conceptual analysis, and critical assessment. Ideal as a supplementary text in introductory religion courses or as the main text in theory and method in religious studies or in sociology of religion courses, Nine Theories of Religion, Third Edition, offers an illuminating treatment of this controversial and fascinating subject. It can be used as a stand-alone text or with the author’s companion reader, Introducing Religion: Readings from the Classic Theorists.

Nine Theories of Religion 3rd Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Evolutionary Theories

  • Early evolutionary perspectives

  • Edward Tylor and animism

  • James Frazer and magic/religion/science

  • Critiques and developments

Chapter 2: Functional Theories

  • Emile Durkheim: religion as social cohesion

  • Bronislaw Malinowski and psychological functions

  • Critiques and expansions

Chapter 3: Psychological Theories

  • Sigmund Freud and religion as illusion

  • Carl Jung and archetypes

  • Other psychological perspectives

Chapter 4: Marxist Theories

  • Religion as ideology and social control

  • Karl Marx’s critique

  • Contemporary Marxist approaches

Chapter 5: Phenomenological Theories

  • Edmund Husserl and phenomenology of religion

  • Rudolf Otto and the idea of the holy

  • Mircea Eliade and sacred vs profane

Chapter 6: Symbolic and Interpretive Theories

  • Clifford Geertz and religion as a cultural system

  • Victor Turner and ritual symbolism

  • Other symbolic approaches

Chapter 7: Feminist Theories

  • Gender and religion

  • Feminist critiques of traditional theories

  • Contemporary feminist perspectives

Chapter 8: Postmodern and Critical Theories

  • Postmodern critiques of grand narratives

  • Power, discourse, and religion

  • Deconstruction and religion

Chapter 9: Cognitive Theories

  • Cognitive science of religion

  • Evolutionary psychology and religion

  • Contemporary developments

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