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"Why do human beings believe in divinities? Why do some seek eternal life, while others seek escape from recurring lives? Why do the beliefs and behaviors we typically call "religious" so deeply affect the human personality and so subtly weave their way through human society? Revised and updated in this third edition, Nine Theories of Religion considers how these fundamental questions have engaged the most important thinkers of the modern era. Accessible, systematic, and succinct, it considers the Victorian anthropology of E. B. Tylor and J. G. Frazer, the "reductionist" social science of SigmundFreud, Émile Durkheim, and Karl Marx, the non-reductionist approaches of Max Weber, William Janes, and Mircea Eliade, and the alternative paradigms that have arisen from the work of E. E. Evans-Pritchard and Clifford Geertz. The third edition features a new chapter on William James. Each chapter offers biographical background, theoretical exposition, conceptual analysis, and critical assessment"--Page [4] of cover.

Religion --- Religion --- Religion. --- Religionswissenschaft. --- Theorie. --- Study and teaching --- History. --- Study and teaching.

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Religion --- Study and teaching --- History --- Etude et enseignement --- Histoire --- 291 --- -Religion --- -Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend --- -History --- -Study and teaching --- History. --- -Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend --- -291 --- Religion, Primitive --- Study and teaching&delete& --- religion --- origine of religion --- individual emotional needs --- sociel demands in society --- economic injustice --- cultural patterns --- human reason --- scientific theory of religion --- classic theory --- E.B. Tylor --- James Frazer --- Freud --- Marx --- Emile Durkheim --- Mircea Eliade --- E.E. Evans-Pritchard --- Clifford Geertz