ABSTRACT

Fifty Key Thinkers on Religion is an accessible guide to the most important and widely studied theorists on religion of the last 300 years. Arranged chronologically, the book explores the lives, works and ideas of key writers across a truly interdisciplinary range, from sociologists to psychologists.

Thinkers covered include:

  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • James Frazer
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Emile Durkheim
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Mary Douglas
  • Talal Asad
  • Søren Kierkegaard

Providing an indispensable one volume map of our understanding of religion in the west, the book is fully cross-referenced throughout and provides authoritative guides to important primary and secondary texts for students wishing to take their studies further.

part |222 pages

Fifty Key Thinkers on Religion

chapter |5 pages

David Hume (1711–76)

chapter |5 pages

Georg Hegel (1770–1831)

chapter |3 pages

Karl Marx (1818–83)

chapter |4 pages

E. B. Tylor (1832–1917)

chapter |5 pages

Max Weber (1864–1920)

chapter |5 pages

Rudolf Otto (1869–1937)

chapter |4 pages

D. T. Suzuki (1870–1966)

chapter |5 pages

Carl Jung (1875–1961)

chapter |4 pages

Martin Buber (1878–1939)

chapter |5 pages

Paul Tillich (1886–1965)

chapter |5 pages

Mircea Eliade (1907–86)

chapter |5 pages

Victor Turner (1920–83)

chapter |4 pages

Mary Douglas (1921–2007)

chapter |5 pages

John Hick (1922–)

chapter |4 pages

RenÉ Girard (1923–)

chapter |5 pages

Ninian Smart (1927–2001)

chapter |4 pages

Robert Bellah (1927–)

chapter |5 pages

Peter Berger (1929–)

chapter |5 pages

Walter Burkert (1931–)

chapter |5 pages

Talal Asad (1932–)

chapter |4 pages

Rita Gross (1943–)

chapter |5 pages

Pascal Boyer (1957–)