Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion
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Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion

Aims, Methods and Theories of Research. Introduction and Anthology

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Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion

Aims, Methods and Theories of Research. Introduction and Anthology

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9783110163285
eBook ISBN
9783110800722
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Studies

Table of contents

  1. PREFACE
  2. INTRODUCTION View of a Hundred Years’ Study of Religion
  3. PRELIMINARY
  4. HISTORICAL SURVEY
  5. Introduction: Up to the middle of the 19th century
  6. 1. The study of religion established as an autonomous discipline
  7. 2. Connections with other disciplines
  8. 3. Religion as a special subject of research
  9. 4. Later contributions from other disciplines
  10. 5. Perspectives of a phenomenological study of religion
  11. LOOKING BACK
  12. ANTHOLOGY
  13. INTRODUCTORY NOTE
  14. PART 1: The Study of Religion established as an Autonomous Discipline
  15. 1. F. MAX MÜLLER
  16. Biography
  17. Plea for a science of religion (from Chips from a German workshop)
  18. The comparative study of religions (from Introduction to the science of religion)
  19. 2. CORNELIS P. TIELE
  20. Biography
  21. ‘Elements of the science of religion’ (from Elements of the science of religion, Vols. I and II)
  22. 3. PIERRE D. CHANTEPIE DE LA SAUSSAYE
  23. Biography
  24. ‘The science of religion’ (from Manual of the science of religion)
  25. Phenomenology of religion (from Manual of the science of religion)
  26. PART 2: Connections with Other Disciplines
  27. 4. JOHANN J. BACHOFEN
  28. Biography
  29. ‘Symbol and myth’ (from Myth, religion and mother right)
  30. Matriarchy and religion (from Myth, religion and mother right)
  31. 5. ERNEST RENAN
  32. Biography
  33. Vindication of a critical mind (from Studies of religious history)
  34. 6. N. D. FUSTEL DE COULANGES
  35. Biography
  36. ‘The necessity of studying the earliest beliefs of the ancients in order to understand their institutions’ (from The ancient city)
  37. 7. JULIUS WELLHAUSEN
  38. Biography
  39. Historical research on the Pentateuch (from Prolegomena to the history of ancient Israel)
  40. 8. WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH
  41. Biography
  42. The study of the religion of the Semites (from Lectures on the religion of the Semites)
  43. 9. FRIEDRICH C. G. DELITZSCH
  44. Biography
  45. ‘Babel and Bible’ (from Babel and Bible, 1st and 2nd Lecture)
  46. 10. ALBERT SCHWEITZER
  47. Biography
  48. ‘The quest of the historical Jesus’ (from The quest of the historical Jesus)
  49. 11. WILLIAM JAMES
  50. Biography
  51. The study of religious experience (from The varieties of religious experience)
  52. 12. HERBERT SPENCER
  53. Biography
  54. ‘Ancestor-worship’ (from The principles of sociology)
  55. 13. EDWARD B. TYLOR
  56. Biography
  57. ‘Animism’ (from Primitive culture)
  58. 14. ANDREW LANG
  59. Biography
  60. ‘The making of religion’ (from The making of religion)
  61. 15. JAMES GEORGE FRAZER
  62. Biography
  63. ‘The golden bough’ and the study of religion (from The golden bough)
  64. 16. ROBERT R. MARETT
  65. Biography
  66. ‘The Tabu-Mana formula as a minimum definition of religion’
  67. 17. WILHELM SCHMIDT
  68. Biography
  69. ‘The origin and growth of religion’ (from The origin and growth of religion)
  70. The quest of the Supreme Being (from High Gods in North America)
  71. 18. ARNOLD VAN GENNEP
  72. Biography
  73. ‘On the method to be followed in the study of rites and myths’
  74. 19. EMILE DURKHEIM
  75. Biography
  76. ‘The elementary forms of the religious life’ (from The elementary forms of the religious life)
  77. Classification systems and religion (from Primitive classification, together with Emile Durkheim)
  78. 21. LUCIEN LÉVY-BRUHL
  79. Biography
  80. ‘Primitive mentality’ and religion (from How natives think)
  81. 22. MAX WEBER
  82. Biography
  83. Symbolic meaning and religion (from The sociology of religion)
  84. 23. SIGMUND FREUD
  85. Biography
  86. Religion as illusion (from The future of an illusion)
  87. ‘The question of a Weltanschauung’ (from New introductory lectures on psycho-analysis)
  88. The story of religion (from Moses and monotheism)
  89. PART 3: Religion as a Special Subject of Research
  90. 24. NATHAN SÖDERBLOM
  91. Biography
  92. ‘The origin of the belief in God’ (from Der Ursprung des Gottesglaubens)
  93. ‘The living God’ (from The living God)
  94. 25. WILLIAM BREDE KRISTENSEN
  95. Biography
  96. On the study of religious phenomena (from The meaning of religion)
  97. 26. GERARDUS VAN DER LEEUW
  98. Biography
  99. ‘Some recent achievements of psychological research and their application to history, in particular the history of religion’
  100. On phenomenology and its relation to theology
  101. On ‘understanding’ (from Inleiding tot de theologie)
  102. ‘Religion in essence and manifestation’ (from Religion in essence and manifestation)
  103. Beauty and holiness (from Sacred and profane beauty)
  104. 27. RUDOLF OTTO
  105. Biography
  106. ‘The idea of the holy’ (from The idea of the holy)
  107. Religious history (from Religious essays)
  108. 28. FRIEDRICH HEILER
  109. Biography
  110. ‘Prayer’ (from Prayer)
  111. ‘The object of the study of religion’ (from Das Gebet)
  112. ‘The scholarly study of religion’ (from The manifestations and essence of religion)
  113. 29. HEINRICH FRICK
  114. Biography
  115. ‘The aim of the comparative study of religions (typology)’ (from Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft)
  116. 30. JOACHIM WACH
  117. Biography
  118. Religion and society (from Sociology of religion)
  119. On comparative studies in religion (from The comparative study of religion)
  120. ‘Universals in religion’ (from Types of religious experience)
  121. ‘The concept of the “classical” in the study of religions’ (from Types of religious experience)
  122. ‘The meaning and task of the history of religions (Religionswissenschaft)’
  123. PART 4: Later Contributions from Other Disciplines
  124. 31. CARL GUSTAV JUNG
  125. Biography
  126. On ‘psychology of religion’ (from Psychology of religion)
  127. On myths and archetypes (from Introduction to a science of mythology)
  128. 32. BRONISlAW MALINOWSKI
  129. Biography
  130. The study of ‘primitive man’ and his religion (from Magic, science and religion)
  131. 33. ROBERT H. LOWIE
  132. Biography
  133. On the term ‘religion’ (from Primitive religion)
  134. 34. PAUL RADIN
  135. Biography
  136. ‘The nature and substance of religion’ (from Primitive religion)
  137. ‘Primitive man as philosopher’ (from Primitive man as philosopher)
  138. The religious and the non-religious man (from The world of primitive man)
  139. 35. ALFRED R. RADCLIFFE-BROWN
  140. Biography
  141. ‘Religion and society’
  142. 36. MARTIN P. NILSSON
  143. Biography
  144. On method and theory
  145. On the advancements made in the study of Greek religion
  146. On religion
  147. 37. WALTER F. OTTO
  148. Biography
  149. On the study of Greek religion: ‘The Homeric Gods’ (from The Homeric Gods)
  150. On the Greek Gods and on myth (from Theophania)
  151. PART 5: Perspectives of a Phenomenological Study of Religion
  152. 38. RAFFAELE PETTAZZONI
  153. Biography
  154. ‘ “History” and “phenomenology” in the science of religion’
  155. 39. HENDRIK KRAEMER
  156. Biography
  157. On the presuppositions and limits of the science of religion (from Religion and the Christian faith)
  158. 40. MAX SCHELER
  159. Biography
  160. Psychology, ‘concrete’ and ‘essential’ phenomenology of religion (from On the Eternal in man)
  161. 41. GASTON BERGER
  162. Biography
  163. On phenomenological research in the field of religion
  164. SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  165. INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES
  166. INDEX OF SCHOLARLY CONCEPTS
  167. INDEX OF CONCRETE SUBJECTS