Religion : the classical theories /

Religion : the classical theories /

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Author / Creator:	Thrower, James, 1936-1999.
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©1999.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 209 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	The Classical Theories Ser. The Classical Theories Ser.
Subject:	Religion -- Philosophy. Religion -- Philosophy. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11105349

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ISBN:	0585105146 9780585105147 9781474473255 1474473253 0748610103 9780748610105 074867392X 9780748673926 0748610103 9780748610105
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Thrower, James, 1936-1999. Religion. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©1999 0748610103
Standard no.:	9780748610105

Table of Contents:

Preface
1.. Introduction
Part I. Religious Theories of Religion
2.. Religion as Revelation
3.. Religion as Experience
4.. Religion as Philosophy
Part II. Naturalistic Theories of Religion
5.. Religion as Human Construct: Some Greek and Roman Theories of Religion
6.. Religion as Primitive Error
7.. Religion as Psychological Construct
8.. Religion as Social Construct
9.. Conclusion: What is Religion?
Index