Introducing religion : readings from the classic theorists

Author(s)

• Pals, Daniel L.
• Tylor, Edward Burnett, Sir
• Frazer, James George, Sir
• Freud, Sigmund
• Durkheim, Emile
• Marx, Karl
• James, William
• Otto, Rudolf
• Weber, Max
• Eliade, Mircea
• Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Edward Evan)
• Geertz, Clifford

Bibliographic Information

Introducing religion : readings from the classic theorists

[edited by] Daniel L. Pals

Oxford University Press, 2009

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-374)

Contents of Works

• Animism and the origin of religion / E.B. Tylor
• Magic and the rise of religion / James Frazer
• Religion as neurosis / Sigmund Freud
• The social as sacred / Emile Durkheim
• Religion as agent of economic oppression / Karl Marx
• The testimony of religious experience / William James
• Religion and the sense of the "numinous" / Rudolf Otto
• Religion and culture interwoven / Max Weber
• Religion as response to the sacred / Mircea Eliade
• Primitive religion and modern theories / E.E. Evans-Pritchard
• Religion as world-view and ethic / Clifford Geertz

• NCID: BA89846045
• ISBN:
  • 9780195181494
• LCCN: 2008028657
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York ; Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xxvi, 374 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BL51
  • DC22 : 200
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Religion -- Philosophy