Introducing Religion Readings from the Classic Theorists

Preface Introduction 1. Animism and the Origin of Religion, E. B. Tylor 2. Magic and the Rise of Religion, James Frazer 3. Religion as Neurosis, Sigmund Freud 4. The Social as Sacred, Emile Durkheim 5. Religion as Agent of Economic Oppression, Karl Marx 6. The Testimony of Religious Experience, William James 7. Religion and the Sense of the "Numinous," Rudolf Otto 8. Religion and Culture Interwoven, Max Weber 9. Religion as Response to the Sacred, Mircea Eliade 10. Primitive Religion and Modern Theories, E. E. Evans-Pritchard 11. Religion as World-view and Ethic, Clifford Geertz