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Captive Gods : Religion and the Rise of Social Science.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Appiah, Anthony.
- Series:
- The Terry Lectures Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah explores how early social scientists developed our modern understandings of society through their theories of religion The foundations of modern social science were built on the study of religion, the acclaimed thinker Kwame Anthony Appiah argues.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- chapter 1 Edward Burnett Tylor
- chapter 2 Emile Durkheim
- chapter 3 Georg Simmel
- chapter 4 Max Weber
- chapter 5 Critical and Cognitive Turns
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-300-28569-8
- OCLC:
- 1535341676
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