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Download Introducing Religion Books now! What is religion? How is it to be explained? Why do human beings believe in divinities?
Why do the beliefs and behaviors we typically describe as religious so deeply affect the human personality and so subtly weave their way through human society? Introducing Religion: Readings from the Classic Theorists presents eleven key texts from influential theorists who played a pivotal role in the modern enterprise of explaining the phenomenon of religion. These writings seek to account for the origin, function, and enduring human appeal of religion by drawing on methods of scientific scholarship unconstrained by theological creeds or confessional commitments.
An ideal companion to author Daniel L. Pals' textbook, Eight Theories of Religion, Second Edition, or other beginning texts, Introducing Religion opens with selections from the works of Edward Burnett Tylor and James Frazer--Victorian pioneers in anthropology and the comparative study of religion. It then offers entry into the provocative analyses of Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, and Karl Marx, whose aggressive reductionist approaches framed the explanatory debate for much of the century to follow.
Responses to reductionist theories--and new directions in explanation--claim a place in selections from the works of philosopher-psychologist William James, theologian Rudolf Otto, sociologist Max Weber, and comparativist Mircea Eliade.
The volume ends with discussions drawn from the celebrated field studies of British anthropologist E. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Click here to sign up. Download Free PDF. Daniel Pals, Nine Theories of Religion. Carole Cusack. A short summary of this paper.
Download Download PDF. Translate PDF. I recommend it unreservedly. This book is an updated version of what is by now a staple reference on reading lists of undergraduate and postgraduate introductory courses on methodology in the study of religion, and the emergence and development of the academic study of religion as a discipline.
What has rendered the book so durable is that Pals writes clearly and competently about theorists that are often quite difficult to read for contemporary students, and he relates particular thinkers thematically, showing how an interest in animism and magic the focus of Chapter 1 plays out rather differently in the works of Edward Burnett Tylor — to how it does in the works of James George Frazer — The remainder of the scholars discussed in Nine Theories of Religion are all major figures, and their contribution to the discipline is unquestionable.
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