Introduction to the Study of Religion

Compilation by Charles B. Jones

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  1. 1.
    Understanding "Religion"
  2. 2.
    Theology and Religious Studies Part Ways
  3. 3.
    A Clean Break — David Hume
  4. 4.
    Auguste Comte — Religion, False but Necessary
  5. 5.
    Karl Marx — Religion as Oppression
  6. 6.
    Émile Durkheim — Society's Mirror
  7. 7.
    Max Weber — The Motor of Economics
  8. 8.
    Peter Berger — The Sacred Canopy
  9. 9.
    Rodney Stark — Rational Choice Theory
  10. 10.
    William James — The Description of Religion
  11. 11.
    Sigmund Freud — The Critique of Religion
  12. 12.
    Carl Jung — The Celebration of Religion
  13. 13.
    Brief Excursus on Immanuel Kant
  14. 14.
    The Victorians and the Golden Bough
  15. 15.
    British Functionalism
  16. 16.
    Symbolic Anthropology — Ferdinand de Saussure
  17. 17.
    Symbolic Anthropology — Claude Lévi-Strauss
  18. 18.
    Symbolic Anthropology — Clifford Geertz
  19. 19.
    From Fries to Otto
  20. 20.
    Mircea Eliade
  21. 21.
    The Women's Studies Perspective
  22. 22.
    Theory Versus Reality — Case Studies
  23. 23.
    Theory in Action — Case Studies
  24. 24.
    How Religion Uses Religious Studies

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