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100 1 a| Appiah, Anthony,e| author.1| https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpJcfJBH7HhYKGC7F7GpP=| ^A191880;

245 10 a| Captive gods :b| religion and the rise of social science /c| Kwame Anthony Appiah.;

264 1 a| New Haven ;a| London :b| Yale University Press,c| [2025];

300 a| 330 pages ;c| 24 cm.;

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490 1 a| Terry Lectures series.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

520 a| "Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah explores how early social scientists developed our modern understandings of society through their theories of religion. The foundations of modern social science were built on the study of religion, the acclaimed thinker Kwame Anthony Appiah argues. Delving into the intellectual currents of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he investigates how formative thinkers - notably Edward Burnett Tylor, Émile Durkheim, Georg Simmel, and Max Weber - grappled with the concepts of society and religion as interdependent categories. Appiah shows how their efforts to define religion, or evade the task, mark the power and limitations of social thought in ways that persist among theorists today. Religion was not merely an object of study but a framework through which early social scientists established sociology as a discipline. Appiah also examines more recent work in both interpretive sociology and evolutionary and cognitive psychology about the mechanisms through which communities form beliefs and values - while underscoring the enduring significance of these earlier debates for contemporary social thought. Throughout, he intertwines storytelling, historical analysis, and philosophical reflection to show how our ideas about society and culture have been, and continue to be, forged in dialogue with religious questions" --c| Provided by publisher.;

505 0 a| Introduction: Communion -- Edward Burnett Tylor: Starting with Spirits -- Émile Durkheim: Society and the Sacred -- Georg Simmel: The Feelings and the Forms -- Max Weber: Religious Rationalities -- Critical and Cognitive Turns -- Epilogue.;

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Captive gods : religion and the rise of social science / Kwame Anthony Appiah.

Author/creator	Appiah, Anthony author.
Format	Book
Publication	New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2025]
Copyright Date	©2025
Description	330 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Religion--Study and teaching. --History. Religion--Methodology. --History. Social sciences--Study and teaching. --History.

Series	Terry Lectures series. Terry lectures. ^A36225
Contents	Introduction: Communion -- Edward Burnett Tylor: Starting with Spirits -- Émile Durkheim: Society and the Sacred -- Georg Simmel: The Feelings and the Forms -- Max Weber: Religious Rationalities -- Critical and Cognitive Turns -- Epilogue.
Abstract	"Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah explores how early social scientists developed our modern understandings of society through their theories of religion. The foundations of modern social science were built on the study of religion, the acclaimed thinker Kwame Anthony Appiah argues. Delving into the intellectual currents of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he investigates how formative thinkers - notably Edward Burnett Tylor, Émile Durkheim, Georg Simmel, and Max Weber - grappled with the concepts of society and religion as interdependent categories. Appiah shows how their efforts to define religion, or evade the task, mark the power and limitations of social thought in ways that persist among theorists today. Religion was not merely an object of study but a framework through which early social scientists established sociology as a discipline. Appiah also examines more recent work in both interpretive sociology and evolutionary and cognitive psychology about the mechanisms through which communities form beliefs and values - while underscoring the enduring significance of these earlier debates for contemporary social thought. Throughout, he intertwines storytelling, historical analysis, and philosophical reflection to show how our ideas about society and culture have been, and continue to be, forged in dialogue with religious questions" -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form	Online version: http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Appiah, Anthony. Captive gods. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2025] 9780300285697
ISBN	9780300233063
ISBN	030023306X (hardcover)

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