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Classical approaches to the study of religion : aims, methods, and theories of research. introduction and anthology / Jacques Waardenburg ; with a foreword by Russell T. McCutcheon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waardenburg, Jacques, 1930-2015, author.
- Series:
- De Gruyter Studium
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religious education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (762 pages)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2017.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Waardenburg’s magisterial essay traces the rise and development of the academic study of religion from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, outlining the establishment of the discipline, its connections with other fields, religion as a subject of research, and perspectives on a phenomenological study of religion. Futhermore a second part comprises an anthology of texts from 41 scholars whose work was programmatic in the evolution of the academic study of religion. Each chapter presents a particular approach, theory, and method relevant to the study of religion. The pieces selected for this volume were taken from the discipline of religious studies as well as from related fields, such as anthropology, sociology, and psychology, to name a few.
- Contents:
- Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion
- Frontmatter
- Foreword: Plus ça change
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Contents
- Introduction: View of a Hundred Years’ Study of Religion
- Preliminary
- Historical Survey
- Looking Back
- Anthology
- Introductory Note
- Part One: The Study of Religion Established as an Autonomous Discipline
- F. Max Müller
- Cornelis P. Tiele
- Pierre D. Chantepie de la Saussaye
- Part Two: Connections with Other Disciplines
- Johann J. Bachofen
- Ernest Renan
- N. D. Fustel de Coulanges
- Julius Wellhausen
- William Robertson Smith
- Friedrich C. G. Delitzsch
- Albert Schweitzer
- William James
- Herbert Spencer
- Edward B. Tylor
- Andrew Lang
- James George Frazer
- Robert R. Marett
- Wilhelm Schmidt
- Arnold van Gennep
- Emile Durkheim
- Marcel Mauss
- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
- Max Weber
- Sigmund Freud
- Part Three: Religion as a Special Subject of Research
- Nathan Söderblom
- William Brede Kristensen
- Gerardus van der Leeuw
- Rudolf Otto
- Friedrich Heiler
- Heinrich Frick
- Joachim Wach
- Part Four: Later Contributions from Other Disciplines
- Carl Gustav Jung
- Bronislaw Malinowski
- Robert H. Lowie
- Paul Radin
- Alfred R. Radcliffe-Brown
- Martin P. Nilsson
- Walter F. Otto
- Part Five: Perspectives of a Phenomenological Study of Religion
- Raffaele Pettazzoni
- Hendrik Kraemer
- Max Scheler
- Gaston Berger
- Sources and Acknowledgments
- Indexes
- Index of Personal Names
- Index of Scholarly Concepts
- Index of Concrete Subjects
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 1, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 9783110473599
- 3110473593
- 9783110473865
- 3110473860
- OCLC:
- 979733207
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