The religious experience : classical philosophical and social theories / Irving M. Zeitlin.
| Author/creator | Zeitlin, Irving M. author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, ©2004. |
| Description | xii, 212 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Rosseau. The creed of a savoyard priest -- Rousseau on civil religion -- Hegel. Romanticism and nationalism -- Hegel's early essays on religion -- Hegel's later philosophy of religion -- The young or left Hegelians. Feuerbach on the essence of religion -- Marx's critique -- Max Stirner -- The rebuttal of stirner by Marx and Engels -- Bruno Bauer on the so -- called Jewish question -- Marx. The young Marx on religion -- Nietzsche. Thus spoke Zarathustra -- Beyond good and evil -- On the genealogy of morals -- Guilt, bad conscience, and ascetic ideals -- The anti -- Christ -- Max Weber. The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism -- The spirit of capitalism -- Traditionalism -- Luther's conception of the calling -- The religious foundations of worldly asceticism -- Asceticism and the spirit of capitalism -- Weber's travels in America and their confirmation of his thesis -- Criticisms of the Weber thesis -- Max Weber on the world religions. The religion of China -- Confucianism and Puritanism -- The religion of India -- Ancient Judaism -- The Hebrew prophets : the setting -- The prophetic ethic -- The "pariah" community -- E.B. Tylor. Retribution theory? -- Development of degeneration? -- The soul as the source of animism -- Fetishism and idolatry -- Totemism -- Polytheism -- James George Frazer. The king of the wood -- From magic to religion -- The worship of trees -- Solving the mystery -- Bronislaw Malinowski. Death and the functions of religion -- Malinowski's theory of magical language -- Sigmund Freud. Religion as illusion -- Freud's repudiation of religious beliefs -- Émile Durkheim. Totemism : an elementary religion -- Ascetic rites -- Criticisms of Durkheim's theory. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Zeitlin, Irving M. Religious experience. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, ©2004 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2003015096 |
| ISBN | 0130982393 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780130982391 (pbk.) |