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- catalog abstract ""This is the first text to review in a single volume the theories of religion which have been put forward by both believers and non-believers."--Jacket. ""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. In the course of his discussion the author also engages with many contemporary thinkers whose discussions of religion have been based on these classical accounts."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11357176.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description """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.".
- catalog description ""This is the first text to review in a single volume the theories of religion which have been put forward by both believers and non-believers."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "In the course of his discussion the author also engages with many contemporary thinkers whose discussions of religion have been based on these classical accounts."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- pt. 1. Religious theories of religion. Religion as revelation -- Religion as experience -- Religion as philosophy -- pt. 2. Naturalistic theories of religion. Religion as human construct : some Greek and Roman theories of religion -- Religion as primitive error -- Religion as psychological construct -- Religion as social construct -- Conclusion : What is religion?".
- catalog extent "viii, 209 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0878407510 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press,".
- catalog subject "200 21".
- catalog subject "BL51 .T54 1999".
- catalog subject "Religion Philosophy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- pt. 1. Religious theories of religion. Religion as revelation -- Religion as experience -- Religion as philosophy -- pt. 2. Naturalistic theories of religion. Religion as human construct : some Greek and Roman theories of religion -- Religion as primitive error -- Religion as psychological construct -- Religion as social construct -- Conclusion : What is religion?".
- catalog title "Religion : the classical theories / James Thrower.".
- catalog type "text".