Religion in the making : the emergence of the sciences of religion
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Religion in the making : the emergence of the sciences of religion
(Studies in the history of religions, . Numen book series ; v. 80)
Brill, 1998
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Note
Papers from a conference held May 22-24, 1997 at the University of Amsterdam
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume explores the ways in which religion became the object of scientific research in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Most obvious is the development of an increasingly autonomous science of religion (with founding fathers like Max Muller and C.P. Tiele). However, within anthropology (Tylor, Frazer), sociology (Durkheim, Max Weber), and psychology (William James), religion also came to be seen as a separate entity to be studied comparatively. To capture this wide field this book focuses on the emergence of the discourse on religion in a broad academic context, among different disciplines. The emphasis is on general socio-historical developments, rather than on individual biographies.
Part I deals with the institutionalization of science of religion in France, Britain, and the Netherlands. Part II focuses on boundary disputes between the emerging "sciences of religion". Part III examines new conceptualizations of religion underlying the new endeavour ("ritual", "magic", "survival").
Table of Contents
Preface
Contributors
Introduction, Arie L. Molendijk
PART ONE. Institutionalization: National Settings
Sciences of Religion in France during the July Monarchy (1830-1848), Michel Despland
The Foundations of the Study of Religion in the British Context, Peter Byrne
Transforming Theology: The Institutionalization of the Science of Religion in the Netherlands, Arie L. Molendijk
PART TWO. Emerging Disciplines: Boundary Disputes
The Science of Religion and Theology: The Question of Their Interrelationship, Sigurd Hjelde
J.G. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists and the "Scientific" Study of Religion, Robert Ackerman
The Ironies of Fin-de-Siecle Rebellions against Historicism and Empiricism in the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Fifth Section, Ivan Strenski
Rethinking the Rise and Fall of the Psychology of Religion, David M. Wulff
PART THREE. Rethinking Religion: Conceptual Innovations
How Religion Became Scientific, Robert J. Baird
Religion Posed as a Racial Category. A Reading of Emile Burnouf, Adolph Moses, and Eliza Sunderland, Miriam Peskowitz
The Emergence of the Academic Science of Magic: The Occult Philosophy in Tylor and Frazer, Wouter J. Hanegraaff
British Roots of the Concept of Ritual, Barbara Boudewijnse
Survivals: Conceiving of Religious History in an Age of Development, Hans G. Kippenberg
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
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