Michel Despland, Peter Byrne, Arie L. Molendijk, Sigurd Hjelde, Robert Ackerman, Ivan Strenski, David M. Wulff, Robert J
This volume explores the ways in which religion became the object of scientific research in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Most obvious is the development of an increasingly autonomous science of religion (with founding fathers like Max Muller and C.P. Tiele). However, within anthropology (Tylor, Frazer), sociology (Durkheim, Max Weber), and psychology (William James), religion also came to be seen as a separate entity to be studied comparatively. To capture this wide field this book focuses on the emergence of the discourse on religion in a broad academic context, among...
This volume explores the ways in which religion became the object of scientific research in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Most obvious...
