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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Quest for Natural Religion | |
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| Edward's Prayer | |
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| Common Notions Concerning Religion | |
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| from The Natural History of Religion | |
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| Hume's Natural History of Religion and the Beginning of the Social Scientific Study of Religion | |
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| The Critique of Religion Also Begins with the Critique of the Bible | |
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| from The History of the Origins of Christianity, Book I: Life of Jesus | |
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| The Historical System of Ernest Renan | |
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| from A Theologico-Political Treatise and a Political Treatise | |
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| The Bible and Religion in the Century of Genius, Part III: The Hidden Dialogue in Spinoza's Tractatus | |
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| The Shock of the Old: Max Muller's Search for the Soul of Europe | |
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| Preface to Chips from a German Woodshop | |
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| On the Philosophy of Mythology | |
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| Forgotten Bibles | |
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| Muller on the Science of Religion | |
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| The Shock of the 'Savage': Edward Burnett Tylor, Evolution, and Spirits | |
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| from Anahuac: Or Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern | |
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| The Religion of Savages | |
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| from Primitive Culture | |
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| Edward Burnett Tylor and the Mission of Primitive Man | |
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| Evolution in the Religion of the Bible: William Robertson Smith | |
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| from Lectures on the Religion of the Semites | |
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| Renan's Histoire du peuple d'Israel | |
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| William Robertson Smith | |
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| Setting the Eternal Templates of Salvation: James Frazer | |
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| from The Golden Bough | |
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| Outcast from the Islands: Frazer, The Golden Bough, and Modern Anthropology | |
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| from Evolution to Religious Experience: Phenomenology of Religion | |
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| from The Meaning of Religion: Lectures in the Phenomenology of Religion | |
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| from Argonauts of the Western Pacific | |
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| from The Idea of the Holy | |
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| Towards a Theory of the Configurations of Religion | |
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| Religious Experience Creates the World of the Modern Economy: Max Weber | |
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| from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | |
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| Capitalism and Protestantism | |
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| Religion and Development: Weber and the East Asian Experience | |
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| Tales from the Underground: Freud and the Psychoanalytic Origins of Religion | |
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| from The Future of an Illusion | |
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| Sigmund Freud | |
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| The Neurosis of Civilization | |
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| from Freud: The Mind of the Moralist | |
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| Bronislaw Malinowski, Bipolarity, and the "Sublime Folly" of Religion | |
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| from Magic, Science and Religion | |
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| Souvenir of Malinowsky | |
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| Anthropology and the Science of the Irrational: Malinowski's Encounter with Freudian Psychoanalysis | |
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| Seeing the Sacred with the Social Eye: Emile Durkheim's "Religious Sociology" | |
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| from The Elementary Forms of Religious Life | |
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| Concerning the Definition of Religious Phenomena | |
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| Contribution to Discussion "Religious Sentiment at the Present Time" | |
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| Individualism and Intellectuals | |
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| Pragmatism and Protestantism in the Development of Durkheim's Sociology of Religion | |
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| Mircea Eliade: Turning the 'Worm of Doubt' | |
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| from Patterns in Comparative Religion | |
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| Crisis and Renewal | |
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| Cosmogonic Myth and "Sacred History" | |
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| Mircea Eliade: Apologia Pro Opere Suo | |
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| Index | |