Religion in the making : : the emergence of the sciences of religion /

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

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 anthropo...

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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.
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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.

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