Religious Experience Classical Philosophical and Social Theories

Name: Religious Experience Classical Philosophical and Social Theories
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ISBN: 9780130982391

ISBN-10: 0130982393

ISBN-13: 9780130982391

Edition: 2004

Authors: Irving M. Zeitlin

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For courses in the Sociology, Philosophy, and Psychology of Religion in the departments of Sociology and Religious Studies; also appropriate as a supplemental text in Seminaries and Schools of Theology. Providing a full exposition of the classical philosophical and social theories of religion, this text covers the major thinkers from the time of the 18th century Enlightenment through the 20th century. It discusses virtually all classical works, providing chapters on each participant in historical order, so that students can learn how insight developed through time.

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List price: $113.32
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 9/20/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.90" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638

Yafei Li is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Linguistics at the University ofWisconsin, Madison.Yafei Li is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.



Preface: The Scientific Study of Religion: The Beginnings



Rousseau


The Creed of a Savoyard Priest


Rousseau on Civil Religion



Hegel


Romanticism and Nationalism


Hegel's Early Essays on Religion


Hegel's Later Philosophy of Religion



The Young or Left Hegelians


Feuerbach on the Essence of Religion


Marx's Critique


Max Stirner


The Rebuttal of Stirner by Marx and Engels


Bruno Bauer on the So-Called Jewish Question



Marx


The Young Marx on Religion



Nietzsche


Thus Spoke Zarathustra


Beyond Good and Evil


On the Genealogy of Morals


Guilt, Bad Conscience, and Ascetic Ideals


The Anti-Christ



Max Weber


The Protestant EthicandThe Spirit of Capitalism


The Spirit of Capitalism


Traditionalism


Luther's Conception of the Calling


The Religious Foundations of Worldly Asceticism


Calvinism


Pietism


Methodism


The Baptist Sects


Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism


Weber's Travels in America and their Confirmation of His Thesis


Criticisms of the Weber Thesis



Max Weber on the World Religions


The Religion of China


Confucianism and Puritanism


The Religion of India


Orthodox Hinduism


Jainism


Ancient Buddhism


Ancient Judaism


The Hebrew Prophets: The Setting


The Prophetic Ethic


The ldquo;Pariahrdquo; Community



E.B. Tylor


Retribution Theory?


Development or Degeneration?


The Soul as the Source of Animism


Fetishism and Idolatry


Totemism


Polytheism



James George Frazer


The King of the Wood


From Magic to Religion


The Worship of Trees


Solving the Mystery



Bronislaw Malinowski


Death and the Functions of Religion


Malinowski's Theory of Magical Language



Sigmund Freud


Religion as Illusion


Freud's Repudiation of Religious Beliefs



Emile Durkheim


Totemism: An Elementary Religion


Ascetic Rites


Criticisms of Durkheim's Theory


Epilogue