Title: The Religious Experience
Subtitle: Classical Philosophical and Social Theories
First published: September 20, 2003
Description: This chronologically organized book offers readers the opportunity to examine the development of religious thinking from the 18th-century Enlightenment through the 20th century. The contributions of all of the major social thinkers are considered in this thoughtful and integrative look at the classical roots of religious thought.
People: Bruno Bauer (1809-1882), Émile Durkheim, Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872), James George Frazer, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), Bronislaw Malinowski, Karl Marx (1818-1883), Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Max Stirner (1806-1856), Edward Burnett Tylor, Max Weber (1864-1920)