{"product_id":"understanding-theories-of-religion-9781444330847","title":"Understanding Theories of Religion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing comprehensive updates and additions, the second edition of Understanding Theories of Religion explores the development of major theories of religion through the works of classic and contemporary figures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA new edition of this introductory text exploring the core methods and theorists in religion, spanning the sixteenth-century through to the latest theoretical trends\u003cbr\u003e Features an entirely new section covering religion and postmodernism; race, sex, and gender; and religion and postcolonialism\u003cbr\u003e Examines the development of religious theories through the work of classic and contemporary figures from the history of anthropology, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and theology\u003cbr\u003e Reveals how the study of religion evolved in response to great cultural conflicts and major historical events\u003cbr\u003e Student-friendly features include chapter introductions and summaries, biographical vignettes, a timeline, a glossary, and many other learning aids\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface to the Second Edition: Understanding, Instead of Just Thinking vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: Understanding Theories of Religion is Better than Just Being Critical 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I The Prehistory of the Study of Religion: Responses to an Expanding World 7\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Jean Bodin and Herbert of Cherbury: True Religion, Essential Religion, and Natural Religion 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Understanding Religion Also Began with Trying to Understand the Bible 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Classic Nineteenth-Century Theorists of the Study of Religion: The Quest for the Origins of Religion in History 31\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Max Müller, the Comparative Study of Religion, and the Search for Other Bibles in India 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Shock of the “Savage”: Edward Burnett Tylor, Evolution, and Spirits 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Religion of the Bible Evolves: William Robertson Smith 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Setting the Eternal Templates of Salvation: James Frazer 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Classic Twentieth-Century Theorists of the Study of Religion: Defending the Inner Sanctum of Religious Experience or Storming It 75\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Understanding How to Understand Religion: “Phenomenology of Religion” 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 How Religious Experience Created Capitalism: Max Weber 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Tales from the Underground: Freud and the Psychoanalytic Origins of Religion 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Bronislaw Malinowski and the “Sublime Folly” of Religion 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Seeing God with the Social Eye: Durkheim’s Religious Sociology 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Mircea Eliade: Turning Back the “Worm of Doubt” 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Liberation and Post-Modernism: Race, Gender, Post-Colonialism, the Discourse on Power 155\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 From Modernism to Post-Modernism: Mostly Michel Foucault 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Theorizing Religion with Race in Mind: Prophecy or Curiosity? 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Sex\/Gender and Women: Feminists Theorizing Religion 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Another “Otherness”: Post-Colonial Theories of Religion 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Conclusion: Being “Smart” about Bringing “Religion” Back In 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 254\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408382894423,"sku":"9781444330847","price":27.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781444330847.jpg?v=1730502701","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/understanding-theories-of-religion-9781444330847","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}