Religion in the making : : the emergence of the sciences of religion / / Arie L. Molendijk and Peter Pels.

• Superior document: Studies in the history of religions, v. 80
• TeilnehmendeR: Molendijk, Arie L.,; Pels, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 1998.
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Series: Numen Book Series 80.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Includes index.

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 Müller 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 different disciplines. The emphasis is on general socio-historical developments, rather than on individual biographies. Part I deals with the institutionalization of science of religion in France, Britain, and the Netherlands. Part II focuses on boundary disputes between the emerging \'sciences of religion\'. Part III examines new conceptualizations of religion underlying the new endeavour (\'ritual\', \'magic\', \'survival\').

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction / Arie L. Molendijk -- Institutionalization: National Settings -- Sciences of Religion in France During the July Monarchy (1830-1848) / Michel Despland -- The Foundations of the Study of Religion in the British Context / Peter Byrne -- Transforming Theology: The Institutionalization of the Science of Religion in the Netherlands / Arie L. Molendijk -- Emerging Disciplines: Boundary Disputes -- The Science of Religion and Theology: The Question of Their Interrelationship / Sigurd Hjelde -- J.G. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists and the “Scientific” Study of Religion -- The Ironies of Fin-de-Sièecle Rebellions against Historicism and Émpiricism in the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études, Fifth Section / Ivan Strenski -- Rethinking the Rise and Fall of the Psychology of Religion / David M. Wulff -- Rethinking Religion: Conceptual Innovations / Gilles Quispel -- How Religion Became Scientific / Robert J. Baird -- Religion Posed as a Racial Category. A Reading of Émile Burnouf, Adolph Moses, and Eliza Sunderland / Miriam Peskowitz -- The Emergence of the Academic Science of Magic: The Occult Philosophy in Tylor and Frazer / Wouter J. Hanegraaff -- British Roots of the Concept of Ritual / Barbara Boudewijnse -- Survivals: Conceiving of Religious History in an Age of Development / Hans G. Kippenberg -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series.