Introducing religion
Subtitle: readings from the classic theorists
By: [edited] by Daniel L. Pals.
Contributors: Pals, Daniel L.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford University Press
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780195181494; 9780195181487
Subjects: Religion -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Animism and the origin of religion / E.B. Tylor; title: Magic and the rise of religion / James Frazer; title: Religion as neurosis / Sigmund Freud; title: The social as sacred / Emile Durkheim; title: Religion as agent of economic oppression / Karl Marx; title: The testimony of religious experience / William James; title: Religion and the sense of the "numinous" / Rudolf Otto; title: Religion and culture interwoven / Max Weber; title: Religion as response to the sacred / Mircea Eliade; title: Primitive religion and modern theories / E.E. Evans-Pritchard; title: Religion as world-view and ethic / Clifford Geertz.