Religion

Seth Kunin is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Durham. He is author of Religion: The Modern Theories (EUP, 2003).

Introduction; Section One: Setting the Agenda; Chapter 1: Karl Marx and Cultural Materialism; Chapter 2: Émile Durkheim and Functionalism; Chapter 3: Max Weber and Joachim Wach; Chapter 4: Sigmund Freud and the Psychological Tradition; Carl Gustav Jung; Joseph Campbell; Chapter 5: Rudolf Otto: The Idea of the Holy; Section Two: Continuing the Discussion; Chapter 6: Sociology, Methodological Atheism and Secularization; Chapter 7: Psychological Approaches; Chapter 8: Phenomenology and History of Religion; Chapter 9: Feminism, Gender and Religion; Chapter 10: Anthropological Approaches to Religion; Chapter 11: Some Final Words (interim); Section Three: Taking the Discussion in Different Directions; Chapter 12: Ritual and Religious Experience; Chapter 13: Symbolism; Chapter 14: Myth; Chapter 15: Last Words; Bibliography.