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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part One
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book examines a selection of major types of theory explaining religion: religious, philosophical, sociological, socio-economic and psychological. It treats of the presuppositions behind such theories and the grounds of their necessity and validity. It looks at major styles in the definition of religion. It argues that the case for making religion the subject of large scale theorising has not been made and contends that the explanation of religion proceeds better by concentrating on the specifics of religious history and the interconnections between religious ideas.
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PETER B. CLARKE
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Religion Defined and Explained
Authors: Peter B. Clarke, Peter Byrne
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374249
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1993
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-53841-8Published: 12 March 1993
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37424-9Published: 12 March 1993
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 216