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This chronologically organized book offers readers the opportunity to examine the development of religious thinking from the 18th-century Enlightenment through the 20th century. The contributions of all of the major social thinkers are considered in this thoughtful and integrative look at the classical roots of religious thought.
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Bruno Bauer (1809-1882), Émile Durkheim, Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872), James George Frazer, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), Bronislaw Malinowski, Karl Marx (1818-1883), Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Max Stirner (1806-1856), Edward Burnett Tylor, Max Weber (1864-1920)Showing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Table of Contents
Preface.
Page viii
Chapter 1.
Rousseau
Page 1
The Creed of a Savoyard Priest
Page 2
Rousseau on Civil Religion
Page 9
Chapter 2.
Hegel
Page 12
Romanticism and Nationalism
Page 13
Hegel's Early Essays on Religion
Page 16
Hegel's Later Philosophy of Religion
Page 19
Chapter 3.
The Young or Left Hegelians
Page 23
Feuerbach on the Essence of Religion
Page 26
Marx's Critique
Page 31
Max Stirner
Page 32
The Rebuttal of Stirner by Marx and Engels
Page 38
Bruno Bauer on the So-Called Jewish Question
Page 40
Chapter 4.
Marx
Page 45
The Young Marx on Religion
Page 50
Chapter 5.
Nietzsche
Page 53
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Page 58
Beyond Good and Evil
Page 61
On the Genealogy of Morals
Page 66
Guilt, Bad Conscience, and Ascetic Ideals
Page 70
The Anti-Christ
Page 71
Chapter 6.
Max Weber
Page 76
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Page 78
The Spirit of Capitalism
Page 79
Traditionalism
Page 82
Luther's Conception of the Calling
Page 85
The Religious Foundations of Worldly Asceticism
Page 87
Calvinism
Page 87
Pietism
Page 90
Methodism
Page 90
The Baptist Sects
Page 91
Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism
Page 92
Weber's Travels in America and Their Confirmation of His Thesis
Page 96
Criticisms of the Weber Thesis
Page 98
Chapter 7.
Max Weber on the World Religions
Page 102
The Religions of China
Page 103
Confucianism and Puritanism
Page 109
The Religion of India
Page 111
Orthodox Hinduism
Page 114
Jainism
Page 116
Ancient Buddhism
Page 118
Ancient Judaism
Page 121
The Hebrew Prophets: The Setting
Page 124
The Prophetic Ethic
Page 128
The "Pariah" Community
Page 131
Chapter 8.
E. B. Tylor
Page 135
Retribution Theory?
Page 142
Development or Degeneration?
Page 143
The Soul as the Source of Animism
Page 143
Fetishism and Idolatry
Page 145
Totemism
Page 147
Polytheism
Page 148
Chapter 9.
James George Frazer
Page 150
The King of the Wood
Page 154
From Magic to Religion
Page 157
The Worship of Trees
Page 159
Solving the Mystery
Page 164
Chapter 10.
Bronislaw Malinowski
Page 168
Death and the Functions of Religion
Page 172
Malinowski's Theory of Magical Language
Page 174
Chapter 11.
Sigmund Freud
Page 180
Religion as Illusion
Page 184
Freud's Repudiation of Religious Beliefs
Page 187
Chapter 12.
Émile Durkheim
Page 192
Totemism: An Elementary Religion
Page 194
Ascetic Rites
Page 198
Criticisms of Durkheim's Theory
Page 200
Epilogue.
Page 205
Index.
Page 210
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