Fifty Key Thinkers on Religion (Routledge Key Guides) - Hardcover

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Kessler, Gary

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9780415492607: Fifty Key Thinkers on Religion (Routledge Key Guides)
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ISBN 10: 0415492602 ISBN 13: 9780415492607
Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Gary Kessler is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religious Studies at California State University. An experienced teacher of introductory courses in both Philosophy and Religion, he is also the author of Studying Religion: An Introduction Through Cases and Voices of Wisdom: A Multicultural Philosophy Reader.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415492602
ISBN 13 
9780415492607
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
254
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