Religion in the making : the emergence of the sciences of religion

Author(s)

• Molendijk, Arie L.
• Pels, Peter

Bibliographic Information

Religion in the making : the emergence of the sciences of religion

edited by Arie L. Molendijk and Peter Pels

（Studies in the history of religions, . Numen book series ; v. 80）

Brill, 1998

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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Details

• NCID: BA41146791
• ISBN:
  • 9004112391
• LCCN: 98034510
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden ; Boston
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 318 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BL51
  • DC21 : 200/.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Religion -- Philosophy -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Religion -- Study and teaching -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Religion -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Religion -- Study and teaching -- History -- 20th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00620643