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Explaining Religion

Paperback • 1996 • English

Explaining Religion

By J. Samuel

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About the book

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 pos...Show more

Philosophy and Religion
Religion: general

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9780788503214

Published year

1996

Language

English

Original title

Explaining Religion

Format

Paperback

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