Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- 1 Hermeneutics and the philosophical future of religious studies
- 2 Bernard Williams on the gods and us
- 3 Hume's legacy
- 4 Feuerbach: religion's secret?
- 5 Marx and Engels: religion, alienation and compensation
- 6 Tylor and Frazer: are religious beliefs mistaken hypotheses?
- 7 Marett: primitive reactions
- 8 Freud: the battle for ‘earliest’ things
- 9 Durkheim: religion as a social construct
- 10 Lévy-Bruhl: primitive logic
- 11 Berger: the avoidance of discourse
- 12 Winch: trying to understand
- 13 Understanding: a philosophical vocation
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- 1 Hermeneutics and the philosophical future of religious studies
- 2 Bernard Williams on the gods and us
- 3 Hume's legacy
- 4 Feuerbach: religion's secret?
- 5 Marx and Engels: religion, alienation and compensation
- 6 Tylor and Frazer: are religious beliefs mistaken hypotheses?
- 7 Marett: primitive reactions
- 8 Freud: the battle for ‘earliest’ things
- 9 Durkheim: religion as a social construct
- 10 Lévy-Bruhl: primitive logic
- 11 Berger: the avoidance of discourse
- 12 Winch: trying to understand
- 13 Understanding: a philosophical vocation
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
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- Religion and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001