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Religion : the classical theories / James Thrower.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Classical Theories SerPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 209 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585105146
  • 9780585105147
  • 9781474473255
  • 1474473253
  • 074867392X
  • 9780748673926
  • 0748610103
  • 9780748610105
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Religion.DDC classification:
  • 200 21
LOC classification:
  • BL51 .T54 1999eb
Other classification:
  • 08.37
  • BE 2000
  • BE 2030
  • 08.37.
  • BE 2000.
  • BE 2030.
Online resources:
Contents:
Religious Theories of Religion -- Religion as Revelation -- Religion as Experience -- Religion as Philosophy -- Naturalistic Theories of Religion -- Religion as Human Construct: Some Greek and Roman Theories of Religion -- Religion as Primitive Error -- Religion as Psychological Construct -- Religion as Social Construct -- Conclusion: What is Religion?
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Summary: ""Why theories of religion?" After raising and answering this question the author begins his examination of theories of religion by first looking at the explanations given by religious believers (Revelation and Religious experience). He then considers the view of thinkers who have sought to transform religion into philosophy (Plato, Kant and Hegel), before reviewing the theories of those who have seen religion as arising out of errors in primitive thinking (Tyler, Frazer and Levy-Bruhl) and those 'masters of suspicion', as Paul Ricoeur has called them, (Feuerbach, Nietzsche, Marx and Freud) who offered what they believed to be exhaustive psychological and sociological theories of the origin and nature of religion--publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Religious Theories of Religion -- Religion as Revelation -- Religion as Experience -- Religion as Philosophy -- Naturalistic Theories of Religion -- Religion as Human Construct: Some Greek and Roman Theories of Religion -- Religion as Primitive Error -- Religion as Psychological Construct -- Religion as Social Construct -- Conclusion: What is Religion?

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""Why theories of religion?" After raising and answering this question the author begins his examination of theories of religion by first looking at the explanations given by religious believers (Revelation and Religious experience). He then considers the view of thinkers who have sought to transform religion into philosophy (Plato, Kant and Hegel), before reviewing the theories of those who have seen religion as arising out of errors in primitive thinking (Tyler, Frazer and Levy-Bruhl) and those 'masters of suspicion', as Paul Ricoeur has called them, (Feuerbach, Nietzsche, Marx and Freud) who offered what they believed to be exhaustive psychological and sociological theories of the origin and nature of religion--publisher's description.

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