Explaining Religion: Criticism and Theory from Bodin to Freud - Couverture souple

Preus, J. Samuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0300051344 ISBN 13 : 9780300051346

Editeur : Yale University Press, 1991

Synopsis

"How is one to account for the origin of religion?" In this historical study the author addresses this question to nine western thinkers - Jean Bodin, Herbert of Cherbury, Bernard Fontenelle, Giambattista Vico, David Hume, Auguste Comte, Edward Burnett Tylor, Emile Durkheim, and Sigmund Freud - thereby tracing the development and articulation of a modern "naturalistic" approach to the study of religion. It is the author's contention that beginning in the sixteenth century increasing levels of critical detachment from theological presuppositions and commitments led to the question of origins being posed from an altogether non-religious point of view. As the title suggests this new modernist paradigm was characterized by the conviction that religion could indeed be explained in scientific terms as could any other object of critical investigation.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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 scientific terms, like any other object of critical investigation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300051344
• ISBN 13: 9780300051346
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 254
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• Personne responsable: non disponible