What is included with this book?
Preface | p. viii |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
The Quest for Natural Religion | p. 1 |
Edward's Prayer | p. 1 |
Common Notions Concerning Religion | p. 2 |
from The Natural History of Religion | p. 8 |
Hume's Natural History of Religion and the Beginning of the Social Scientific Study of Religion | p. 13 |
The Critique of Religion Also Begins with the Critique of the Bible | p. 23 |
from The History of the Origins of Christianity, Book I: Life of Jesus | p. 23 |
The Historical System of Ernest Renan | p. 27 |
from A Theologico-Political Treatise and a Political Treatise | p. 31 |
The Bible and Religion in the Century of Genius, Part III: The Hidden Dialogue in Spinoza's Tractatus | p. 34 |
The Shock of the Old: Max Muller's Search for the Soul of Europe | p. 49 |
Preface to Chips from a German Woodshop | p. 49 |
On the Philosophy of Mythology | p. 53 |
Forgotten Bibles | p. 57 |
Muller on the Science of Religion | p. 61 |
The Shock of the 'Savage': Edward Burnett Tylor, Evolution, and Spirits | p. 65 |
from Anahuac: Or Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern | p. 65 |
The Religion of Savages | p. 68 |
from Primitive Culture | p. 71 |
Edward Burnett Tylor and the Mission of Primitive Man | p. 74 |
Evolution in the Religion of the Bible: William Robertson Smith | p. 83 |
from Lectures on the Religion of the Semites | p. 83 |
Renan's Histoire du peuple d'Israel | p. 88 |
William Robertson Smith | p. 91 |
Setting the Eternal Templates of Salvation: James Frazer | p. 97 |
from The Golden Bough | p. 97 |
Outcast from the Islands: Frazer, The Golden Bough, and Modern Anthropology | p. 106 |
from Evolution to Religious Experience: Phenomenology of Religion | p. 115 |
from The Meaning of Religion: Lectures in the Phenomenology of Religion | p. 115 |
from Argonauts of the Western Pacific | p. 119 |
from The Idea of the Holy | p. 121 |
Towards a Theory of the Configurations of Religion | p. 126 |
Religious Experience Creates the World of the Modern Economy: Max Weber | p. 135 |
from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | p. 135 |
Capitalism and Protestantism | p. 144 |
Religion and Development: Weber and the East Asian Experience | p. 146 |
Tales from the Underground: Freud and the Psychoanalytic Origins of Religion | p. 155 |
from The Future of an Illusion | p. 155 |
Sigmund Freud | p. 163 |
The Neurosis of Civilization | p. 166 |
from Freud: The Mind of the Moralist | p. 168 |
Bronislaw Malinowski, Bipolarity, and the "Sublime Folly" of Religion | p. 177 |
from Magic, Science and Religion | p. 177 |
Souvenir of Malinowsky | p. 182 |
Anthropology and the Science of the Irrational: Malinowski's Encounter with Freudian Psychoanalysis | p. 184 |
Seeing the Sacred with the Social Eye: Emile Durkheim's "Religious Sociology" | p. 195 |
from The Elementary Forms of Religious Life | p. 195 |
Concerning the Definition of Religious Phenomena | p. 199 |
Contribution to Discussion "Religious Sentiment at the Present Time" | p. 207 |
Individualism and Intellectuals | p. 212 |
Pragmatism and Protestantism in the Development of Durkheim's Sociology of Religion | p. 217 |
Mircea Eliade: Turning the 'Worm of Doubt' | p. 223 |
from Patterns in Comparative Religion | p. 223 |
Crisis and Renewal | p. 226 |
Cosmogonic Myth and "Sacred History" | p. 236 |
Mircea Eliade: Apologia Pro Opere Suo | p. 241 |
Index | p. 248 |
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