Name/Title
Introduction to the study of religion Charles B. Jones DVDDescription
Part 1. Lecture 1: Understanding "religion" -- Lecture 2: Theology and religious studies part ways -- Lecture 3: A clean break: David Hume -- Lecture 4: Auguste Comte: religion, false but necessary -- Lecture 5: Karl Marx: religion as oppression -- Lecture 6: {acute}Emile Durkheim: society's mirror -- Lecture 7: Max Weber: the motor of economics -- Lecture 8: Peter Berger: the sacred canopy -- Lecture 9: Rodney Stark: rational choice theory -- Lecture 10: William James: the description of religion -- Lecture 11: Sigmund Freud: the critique of religion -- Lecture 12: Carl Jung: the celebration of religion.^^Part 2. Lecture 13: Brief excursus on Immanuel Kant -- Lecture 14: The Victorians and the Golden Bough -- Lecture 15: British functionalism -- Lecture 16: Symbolic anthropology: Ferdinand de Saussure -- Lecture 17: Symbolic anthropology: Claude Levi-Strauss -- Lecture 18: Symbolic anthropology: Clifford Geertz -- Lecture 19: From fries to Otto -- Lecture 20: Mircea Eliade -- Lecture 21: The women's studies perspective -- Lecture 22: Theory versus reality: case studies -- Lecture 23: Theory in action: case studies -- Lecture 24: How religion uses religious studies.
4 videodiscs :sd. col. ;4 3/4 in. +1 course guidebook (19 cm.)Publication Details
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DVDAuthor
Jones, Charles B.Date Published
2007Publication Subjects
Religion--Study and teaching.
Religion--Philosophy.Call No.
Video IntroductionISBN
1598033743, 9781598033748