[PDF.15xu] Explaining Religion: Criticism and Theory from Bodin to Freud (AAR Religions in Translation)

Explaining Religion: Criticism and Theory from Bodin to Freud (AAR Religions in Translation)

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 | #1520134 in Books |  Oxford University Press, USA |  1996-01-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.80 x.60 x6.00l,.95 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| A Model of Careful Reading|By Grant H. Potts|Preuss sets out in this book to describe a tradition of explaining religion, in naturalistic terms, beginning with the late Renaissance thinker Jean Bodin, he elegantly sets up a "symposium" of nine thinkers including representatives of from all corners of modern western thought. What is strongest about this book is Preuss ability

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 theological presuppositions a...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Explaining Religion: Criticism and Theory from Bodin to Freud (AAR Religions in Translation)   |  J. Samuel Preus. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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