Explaining Religion: Criticism and Theory from Bodin to Freud - AAR Religions in Translation - J. Samuel Preus - Books - Oxford University Press Inc - 9780788503214 - January 2, 1996
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J. Samuel Preus
Explaining Religion: Criticism and Theory from Bodin to Freud - AAR Religions in Translation

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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 theologicalpresuppositions 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 criticalinvestigation.

252 pages, black & white illustrations

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 2, 1996
ISBN13 9780788503214
Publishers Oxford University Press Inc
Pages 256
Dimensions 153 × 230 × 15 mm   ·   430 g
Language English  

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