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 religion to be explained if the existence of God is not a presupposition? According to the author, this is the question that gave rise to the scientific study of religion, distinguishing it from theological approaches. This book examines the work of nine influential figures in the field.

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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
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible