Religious Studies - Influential Figures

Influential Figures

  • Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach (1845), and Das Kapital (1867)
  • James Frazer, The Golden Bough (1890)
  • Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905)
  • Sigmund Freud, Totem and Taboo (1913), The Future of an Illusion (1927)
  • René Girard, Violence and the Sacred (1972)
  • Rudolf Otto, The Idea of the Holy (1917)
  • Carl Jung, Psychology and Religion: West and East (1938)
  • Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces (1949), The Power of Myth (1988)
  • Alan Watts, Myth and Ritual in Christianity (1953)
  • Clifford Geertz, The Religion of Java (1960)
  • Wilfred Cantwell Smith, The Meaning and End of Religion (1962)
  • E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Theories of Primitive Religion (1965)
  • Peter L. Berger, The Sacred Canopy (1967)
  • Ninian Smart, The Religious Experience of Mankind (1969) (retitled The Religious Experience in 1991 edition)
  • Victor Turner, The Ritual Process (1969)
  • J.Z. Smith, Map is not Territory: Studies in the History of Religions (1978)
  • David Chidester, Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa (1996)
  • Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam (1993)
  • Mark C. Taylor, Critical Terms for Religious Studies (1998)
  • Tomoko Masuzawa, The Invention of World Religions (2005)
  • Bruce Lincoln, Discourse and the Construction of Society (1989)
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques (1955)
  • Caroline Walker Bynum, Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion (1991)
  • Catherine Bell, Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice (1992)
  • Charles H. Long, Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion (1986)

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