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

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Category: Study of Religions

May 13, 2019January 7, 2020 James Bishop

What is the Pursuit for Natural Religion?

May 11, 2019December 19, 2021 James Bishop

Emile Durkheim – Religion as an “Eminently Social” Reality

May 4, 2019December 9, 2021 James Bishop

Friedrich Max Müller – The Father of the Scientific Study of Religion

April 23, 2019December 10, 2021 James Bishop

Contrasting Walter Capps’s and David Chidester’s Concept of the Study of Religion

April 1, 2019December 10, 2021 James Bishop

What is the ‘Language of Religion’ in Religious Studies?

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

March 22, 2019March 23, 2019 James Bishop

An External Analysis of Religion Through Durkheim’s Notion of Religion As “Eminently Social”

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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