Explaining Religion Criticism and Theory from Bodin to Freud

Name: Explaining Religion Criticism and Theory from Bodin to Freud
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Authors: J. Samuel Preus

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J. Samuel Preus traces the development and articulation of a modern "naturalistic" approach to the study of religion by examining ideas about the origin of religion in the works of nine western thinkers: Jean Bodin, Herbert of Cherbury, Bernard Fontenelle, Giambattista Vico, David Hume, Auguste Comte, Edward Brunett Tylor, Emile Durkheim, and Sigmund Freud. He argues that beginning in the sixteenth century increasing critical detachment from theological presuppositions and commitments made it possible for the question of origins to be posed from an altogether non-religious point of view. This new modernist paradigm was characterized by the conviction that religion could be explained in…

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List price: $87.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/2/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.82" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

J. Samuel Preus is Ruth N. Halls Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus at Indiana University.



Acknowledgments


Note on References


Introduction



Religion As a Problem



Conflict, Contradiction, and Impasse: Jean Bodin



Rationalist Versus Historical Approaches



The Deist Option: Herbert of Cherbury



Demythologizing Religious History: Bernard Fontenelle



A Science of Religion?



A "New Science" of Providence: Giambattista Vico



Religion within the Limits of "The Science of Man": David Hume



The Progress of Reason and the Survival of Religion



Inventing Sociology: Auguste Comte



Evolutionary Anthropology: Edward Burnett Tylor



Religion Explained



Sociogenic Theory: Emile Durkheim



Psychogenic Theory: Sigmund Freud


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index