Religion in the making : the emergence of the sciences of religion / Arie L. Molendijk and Peter Pels.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Molendijk, Arie L., editor.

Pels, Peter, editor.

Series:

Numen Book Series 80.

Studies in the history of religions, 0169-8834 ; v. 80

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Religion--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 1998.

Summary:

This volume explores the ways in which religion became the object of scientific research in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Most obvious is the development of an increasingly autonomous science of religion (with founding fathers like Max Müller and C.P. Tiele). However, within anthropology (Tylor, Frazer), sociology (Durkheim, Max Weber), and psychology (William James), religion also came to be seen as a separate entity to be studied comparatively. To capture this wide field this book focuses on the emergence of the discourse on religion in a broad academic context, among different disciplines. The emphasis is on general socio-historical developments, rather than on individual biographies. Part I deals with the institutionalization of science of religion in France, Britain, and the Netherlands. Part II focuses on boundary disputes between the emerging \'sciences of religion\'. Part III examines new conceptualizations of religion underlying the new endeavour (\'ritual\', \'magic\', \'survival\').

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Preface

Contributors

Introduction / Arie L. Molendijk

Institutionalization: National Settings

Sciences of Religion in France During the July Monarchy (1830-1848) / Michel Despland

The Foundations of the Study of Religion in the British Context / Peter Byrne

Transforming Theology: The Institutionalization of the Science of Religion in the Netherlands / Arie L. Molendijk

Emerging Disciplines: Boundary Disputes

The Science of Religion and Theology: The Question of Their Interrelationship / Sigurd Hjelde

J.G. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists and the “Scientific” Study of Religion

The Ironies of Fin-de-Sièecle Rebellions against Historicism and Émpiricism in the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études, Fifth Section / Ivan Strenski

Rethinking the Rise and Fall of the Psychology of Religion / David M. Wulff

Rethinking Religion: Conceptual Innovations / Gilles Quispel

How Religion Became Scientific / Robert J. Baird

Religion Posed as a Racial Category. A Reading of Émile Burnouf, Adolph Moses, and Eliza Sunderland / Miriam Peskowitz

The Emergence of the Academic Science of Magic: The Occult Philosophy in Tylor and Frazer / Wouter J. Hanegraaff

British Roots of the Concept of Ritual / Barbara Boudewijnse

Survivals: Conceiving of Religious History in an Age of Development / Hans G. Kippenberg

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-37903-7

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004379039 DOI