| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in the history of religions,
0169-8834 ;
v. 80
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Studies in the history of religions ; 80.
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| Note |
Papers from a conference held May 22-24, 1997 at the University of Amsterdam. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 / Robert Ackerman -- The ironies of Fin-de-Siècle rebellions against historicism and empiricism in the École pratique des hautes études, fifth section / Ivan Strenski -- Rethinking the rise and fall of the psychology of religion / David M. Wulff -- 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. |
| Summary |
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\'). |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Religion -- Philosophy -- History -- 19th century.
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Religion -- Philosophy. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Religion -- Study and teaching -- History -- 19th century.
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Religion -- Study and teaching. |
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Religion -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Religion -- Study and teaching -- History -- 20th century.
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Religionswissenschaft. |
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Godsdienstwetenschap. |
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Amsterdam <1997>. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Kongress -- Amsterdam -- 1997.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Molendijk, Arie L.
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Pels, Peter.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Religion in the making. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1998 (DLC) 98034510 (OCoLC)39516236 |
| ISBN |
9789004379039 (electronic book) |
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9004379037 (electronic book) |
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9004112391 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9789004112391 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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