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James A. Bishop (PhD candidate, Department for the Study of Religions, University of Cape Town)

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Category: Development

February 17, 2022 James Bishop

Anti-Evolutionist Views of Religion’s Development in Historical Religious Studies

July 27, 2021October 13, 2021 James Bishop

Revisiting William Robertson Smith and His Evolutionary Theory of Religion

May 2, 2021February 21, 2023 James Bishop

Legitimizing Religion: The Appeal to Archaism

November 3, 2020 James Bishop

Lucien Levy-Bruhl on ‘Primitive’ and ‘Civilized’ Mentality

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020 James Bishop

Robert Bellah’s Five Stages of the Evolution of Religion

April 9, 2020 James Bishop

A Privileged Place? Christianity in the Development of Religion Studies

January 30, 2020March 19, 2023 James Bishop

Auguste Comte: Religion and the Evolution of Human Consciousness

June 23, 2019October 28, 2023 James Bishop

E. B. Tylor – ‘Primitive’ Animism as the Origin of Religion

June 13, 2019July 2, 2019 James Bishop

Raffaele Pettazzoni – Monotheism as a Revolution from Within Polytheistic Frameworks

March 23, 2019June 13, 2021 James Bishop

James Frazer – Evolutionary Development of Man’s Religious Psyche

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