Category: Study of Religions
Emile Durkheim – Religion as an “Eminently Social” Reality
Friedrich Max Müller – The Father of the Scientific Study of Religion
Contrasting Walter Capps’s and David Chidester’s Concept of the Study of Religion
What is the ‘Language of Religion’ in Religious Studies?
Wilhelm Schmidt – ‘Primordial Monotheism’ as the Earliest Religious Belief
James Frazer – Evolutionary Development of Man’s Religious Psyche
An External Analysis of Religion Through Durkheim’s Notion of Religion As “Eminently Social”
Friedrich Schleiermacher – Religion as “the Feeling of Absolute Dependence”