Religion : the classical theories / James Thrower.

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Thrower, James, 1936-1999

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0585105146
9780585105147
9781474473255
1474473253
074867392X
9780748673926
0748610103
9780748610105

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Religion.DDC classification:

200 21

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BL51 .T54 1999eb

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08.37
BE 2000
BE 2030

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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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""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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