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

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Category: Historical Theorists

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

June 11, 2019August 12, 2021 James Bishop

Rudolf Otto – Religious Experience as Apprehension of the Holy

May 16, 2019July 2, 2019 James Bishop

Andrew Lang – Making and Creating as the Origin of Religious Belief

May 15, 2019July 2, 2019 James Bishop

Essence of Religion as Delusion or Illusion

March 24, 2019January 4, 2021 James Bishop

Wilhelm Schmidt – ‘Primordial Monotheism’ as the Earliest Religious Belief

March 23, 2019June 13, 2021 James Bishop

James Frazer – Evolutionary Development of Man’s Religious Psyche

February 28, 2019November 2, 2020 James Bishop

Friedrich Schleiermacher – Religion as “the Feeling of Absolute Dependence”

February 24, 2019March 16, 2023 James Bishop

Herbert Spencer – Evolutionary Development of Religious Thought

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