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TheoriesofReligion
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Whydohumanbeingsbelieveindivinities?Whydosomeseeketernal life,whileothersseekescapefromrecurringlives?Whydothebeliefs andbehaviorswetypicallycall"religious"sodeeplyaffectthehuman personalityandsosubtlyweavetheirwaythroughhumansociety? Revisedandupdatedinthisthirdedition,NineTheoriesofReligion considershowthesefundamentalquestionshaveengagedthemost importantthinkersofthemodernera.Accessible,systematic,and succinct,itconsiderstheVictoriananthropologyofE.B.TylorandJ.G. Frazer,the"reductionist"socialscienceofSigmundFreud,Émile Durkheim,andKarlMarx,thenon-reductionistapproachesofMax Weber,WilliamJames,andMirceaEliade,andthealternative paradigmsthathavearisenfromtheworkofE.E.Evans-Pritchardand
CliffordGeertz.ThethirdeditionfeaturesanewchapteronWilliam James.Eachchapteroffersbiographicalbackground,theoretical exposition,conceptualanalysis,andcriticalassessment. Idealasa supplementarytextinintroductoryreligioncoursesorasthemaintext intheoryandmethodinreligiousstudiesorinsociologyofreligion courses,NineTheoriesofReligion,ThirdEdition,offersan illuminatingtreatmentofthiscontroversialandfascinatingsubject.It canbeusedasastand-alonetextorwiththeauthor'scompanionreader, IntroducingReligion:ReadingsfromtheClassicTheorists. Readmore