Research Catalog

Title

Ways of understanding religion / Walter H. Capps.

Author

Capps, Walter H.

Publication

New York : Macmillan, [1971, ©1972]

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Details

Description

xvi, 399 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Religion
• Religion
• religion (discipline)
• Godsdienstwetenschap

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Religion as numinal experience / Rudolf Otto -- Religion as belief in the high God / Wilhelm Schmidt -- On common religious impulses / Raffaele Pettazzoni -- Enlightenment / Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki -- Religion, as man's adjustment to the tremendum / Erwin R. Goodenough -- Religion as the depth dimension in culture / Paul Tillich -- Matriarchal period of human history / J.J. Bachofen -- Reflections on savage man / F. Max Müller -- Origin of man's conception of God / James George Frazer -- On primitive mentality / Lucien Lévy-Bruhl -- Elementary forms of religious life / Émile Durkheim -- Dynamic vs. static religion / Henri Bergson -- Modified evolutionary view / Martin P. Nilsson -- Analysis of "evolution" as an interpretive principle / Geo Widengren -- Observations on the search for religion's primordium / E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- What is phenomenology? / Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Introduction to phenomenology of religion / Geo Widengren -- "Entelecheia" of religious phenomena / C.J. Bleeker -- Tripartitism in Indo-European mythology / C. Scott Littleton on Georges Dumézil -- On the morphology of religious experience / Mircea Eliade -- Structures of human behavior in society / Harold W. Scheffler on Claude Lévi-Strauss -- From Sine qua non to cultural system / Clifford Geertz -- On the comparative study of religion / Wilfred Cantwell Smith -- Cross-religious comparisons / Ninian Smart -- On the social psychology of the world religions / Max Weber -- Institutionalization of religion / Thomas F. O'Dea -- Civil religion in America / Robert N. Bellah -- Christian revelation as critique of religions / Hendrik Kraemer -- Theology and the scientific study of religion / Joachim Wach -- Eastern theological perspective on western faiths / Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan -- Christianity as the transformation of religions / Jean Danielou -- On extricating Religionswissenschaft from theology / Erwin R. Goodenough -- Towards a morphology of symbolic expressions / Ernst Cassirer -- On the mythological mode / Susanne K. Langer -- Symbol gives rise to thought / Paul Ricoeur -- Ludwig Wittgenstein and the transition to the linguistic view / Gilbert Ryle -- Truth claims in religion / R.B. Braithwaite -- Fittingness of religious language / Paul L. Holmer -- Language games and primitive societies / Peter Winch -- Healthy-mindedness and world-sickness / William James -- Unconscious mind / Carl G. Jung -- Homo religiosus as cultural worker / Erik Erikson -- Peak-experience / Abraham H. Maslow.

LCCN

77151166

OCLC

• ocm00222164
• 222164
• SCSB-311468

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library