Explaining Religion: Criticism and Theory from Bodin to Freud

Explaining Religion: Criticism and Theory from Bodin to Freud (AAR Religions in Translation)

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.

Country	USA
Author	J. Samuel Preus
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: Oxford University Press, USA
EAN	9780788503214
Edition	1
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
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ISBN	0788503219
Label	Oxford University Press
Manufacturer	Oxford University Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	256
PublicationDate	1996-01-02
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Studio	Oxford University Press
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Explaining Religion: Criticism and Theory from Bodin to Freud (AAR Religions in Translation)