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

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Category: Critical Theory Religion

June 13, 2021September 26, 2021 James Bishop

Explaining James Frazer’s Theory of Religion (Video)

June 3, 2021September 26, 2021 James Bishop

David Chidester and Postcolonial Theory of Religion: The Foucauldian Influence

May 26, 2021May 26, 2021 James Bishop

Problematizing “Religion”: A Contested Term in Religious Studies

April 30, 2021 James Bishop

Theories of Religion and Secularization

April 15, 2021October 13, 2021 James Bishop

Reflections on Max Weber’s Sociology and Theory of Religion

August 25, 2020March 20, 2023 James Bishop

What was Karl Marx’s Theory of Religion?

July 12, 2020October 13, 2021 James Bishop

Ludwig Feuerbach’s Hypothesis of Religion as a ‘Projection’

July 7, 2020July 7, 2020 James Bishop

A Brief Evaluation of Sigmund Freud’s Moses and Monotheism

January 23, 2020January 24, 2023 James Bishop

David Chidester’s Post-Colonial Theory of Religion

July 21, 2019October 4, 2020 James Bishop

Sigmund Freud – Religious Belief as Wish-Fulfillment and Illusion

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