{"product_id":"thinking-about-religion-isbn-9781405121675","title":"Thinking About Religion","description":"Matching pivotal theorists and theories of religion alongside cutting-edge criticism from a team of leading contemporary scholars, this vibrant collection enables students to gain a balanced understanding of the diverse methods, theories, and theorists involved in the historical and methodological development of the study of religion. It can be used alongside Ivan Strenski’s textbook, \u003ci\u003eThinking about Religion:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAn Historical Introduction to Theories of Religion\u003c\/i\u003e, to offer a complete resource for introductory students of religious studies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCreates a useful mix of classic and contemporary responses to issues in the study of religion, ideal for those coming to the subject for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTraces the major historical and methodological development of the study of religion in the modern West, enabling students to gain a \u003ci\u003ebalanced\u003c\/i\u003e understanding of the diverse methods, theories, and theorists involved.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePrimary theorists featured include Cherbury, Durkheim, Eliade, Frazer, Freud, Hume, Brede Kristensen, Malinowski, Max Müller, Ninian Smart, Robertson Smith, Spinoza, Tylor, and Weber.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContemporary contributors include Winston Davis, Sidney Hook, Robert Alun Jones, Karl Menninger, Sam Preus, Philip Rieff, Robert Segal, Georges Sorel, George Stocking, and William Dwight Whitney.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1: The Quest for Natural Religion 1 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdward’s Prayer 1\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommon Notions Concerning Religion 2\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The Natural History of Religion 8\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Hume\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHume’s Natural History of Religion and the Beginning of the Social Scientific Study of Religion 13\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert A. Segal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2: The Critique of Religion Also Begins with the Critique of the Bible 23\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The History of the Origins of Christianity, Book I: Life of Jesus 23\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eErnest Renan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Historical System of Ernest Renan 27\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeorges Sorel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom A Theologico-Political Treatise and a Political Treatise 31\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBaruch de Spinoza\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bible and Religion in the Century of Genius, Part III: The Hidden vDialogue in Spinoza’s Tractatus 34\u003cbr\u003e J. Samuel Preus\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3: The Shock of the Old: Max Müller’s Search for the Soul of Europe 49\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface to Chips from a German Woodshop 49\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFriedrich Max Müller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the Philosophy of Mythology 53\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFriedrich Max Müller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForgotten Bibles 57\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFriedrich Max Müller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMu¨ller on the Science of Religion 61\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWilliam Dwight Whitney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4: The Shock of the ‘Savage’: Edward Burnett Tylor, Evolution, and Spirits 65\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Anahuac: Or Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern 65\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdward Burnett Tylor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Religion of Savages 68\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdward Burnett Tylor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Primitive Culture 71\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdward Burnett Tylor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdward Burnett Tylor and the Mission of Primitive Man 74\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeorge W. Stocking, Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5: Evolution in the Religion of the Bible: William Robertson Smith 83 from Lectures on the Religion of the Semites 83\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Robertson Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRenan’s Histoire du peuple d’Israel 88\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWilliam Robertson Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Robertson Smith 91\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames Frazer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6: Setting the Eternal Templates of Salvation: James Frazer 97 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The Golden Bough 97\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames Frazer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOutcast from the Islands: Frazer, The Golden Bough, and Modern Anthropology 106\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeorge W. Stocking, Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7: From Evolution to Religious Experience: Phenomenology of Religion 115\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The Meaning of Religion: Lectures in the Phenomenology of Religion 115\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWilliam Brede Kristensen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Argonauts of the Western Pacific 119\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBronislaw Malinowski\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The Idea of the Holy 121\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRudolf Otto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTowards a Theory of the Configurations of Religion 126\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNinian Smart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8: Religious Experience Creates the World of the Modern Economy: Max Weber 135\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 135\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMax Weber\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCapitalism and Protestantism 144\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSidney Hook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligion and Development: Weber and the East Asian Experience 146\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWinston Davis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9: Tales from the Underground: Freud and the Psychoanalytic Origins of Religion 155\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The Future of an Illusion 155\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSigmund Freud\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSigmund Freud 163\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKarl Menninger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Neurosis of Civilization 166\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHenry Hazlitt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Freud: The Mind of the Moralist 168\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhilip Rieff\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 10: Bronislaw Malinowski, Bipolarity, and the ‘‘Sublime Folly’’ of Religion 177\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Magic, Science and Religion 177\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBronislaw Malinowski\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSouvenir of Malinowsky 182\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eClaude Le´vi-Strauss\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnthropology and the Science of the Irrational: Malinowski’s Encounter with Freudian Psychoanalysis 184\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeorge W. Stocking, Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 11: Seeing the Sacred with the Social Eye: Émile Durkheim’s ‘‘Religious Sociology’’ 195\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The Elementary Forms of Religious Life 195\u003cbr\u003e É\u003ci\u003emile Durkheim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConcerning the Definition of Religious Phenomena 199\u003cbr\u003e É\u003ci\u003emile Durkheim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContribution to Discussion ‘‘Religious Sentiment at the Present Time’’ 207\u003cbr\u003e É\u003ci\u003emile Durkheim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndividualism and Intellectuals 212\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eÉmile Durkheim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePragmatism and Protestantism in the Development of Durkheim’s Sociology of Religion 217\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert Alun Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 12: Mircea Eliade: Turning the ‘Worm of Doubt’ 223\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Patterns in Comparative Religion 223\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMircea Eliade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrisis and Renewal 226\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMircea Eliade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCosmogonic Myth and ‘‘Sacred History’’ 236\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMircea Eliade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMircea Eliade: Apologia Pro Opere Suo 241\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBryan Rennie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 248\u003c\/p\u003e  \"This is an extremely useful collection of readings which in combination with Strenski's companion volume would be recommended reading to undergraduate students in religious studies requiring access to 'bitesize' pieces of the formative works in their discipline.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTheological Book Review \u003c!--end--\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eIvan Strenski\u003c\/b\u003e is Holstein Family and Community Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His previous publications include \u003ci\u003eFour Theories of Myth in Twentieth-Century History\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), \u003ci\u003eReligion in Relation: Method, Application, and Moral Location\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), \u003ci\u003eDurkheim and the Jews of France\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), \u003ci\u003eContesting Sacrifice: Religion, Nationalism and Social Thought \u003c\/i\u003e(2002), \u003ci\u003eTheology and the First Theory of Sacrifice\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), and \u003ci\u003eThe New Durkheim: Essays on Philosophy, Religious Identity and the Politics of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e (2006).  This concise reader creates a useful mix of classic and contemporary responses to issues in the study of religion, ideal for those coming to the subject for the first time. Pairing pivotal theorists and theories of religion alongside cutting-edge criticism from both their contemporaries and modern-day scholars, this vibrant collection enables students to gain a balanced understanding of the diverse methods, theories, and theorists involved.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe major historical and methodological developments in the study of religion in the West are traced through the works of leading theorists including Herbert of Cherbury, David Hume, Georges Sorel, Baruch de Spinoza, Friedrich Max Muller, Edward Burnet Tylor, William Robertson Smith, James George Frazer, Bronislaw Malinowski, Max Weber, Sigmund Freud and Emile Durkheim. Each of these primary figures meets their critical match in contributions from contemporary scholars designed to raise questions – both for and against – their approach and work.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlong with Ivan Strenski’s textbook, \u003ci\u003eThinking about Religion:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAn Historical Introduction to Theories of Religion\u003c\/i\u003e, this reader offers a complete resource for introductory students of religious studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990386065637,"sku":"NP9781405121675","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405121675.jpg?v=1761787615","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/thinking-about-religion-isbn-9781405121675","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}