Why people believe in gods? Why beliefs and behaviors called "religious" so deeply permeated human societies?_x000D_
Eight theories of religion is a great approach to how some of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century have addressed these fundamental questions._x000D_
An accessible, systematic summary, this book of Daniel L. Pals analyzes the interpretations of the religion of nine thinkers without whom it would be impossible to understand the intellectual culture of the modern era: Edward Burnett Tylor and James Frazer, Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Mircea Eliade, E. E. Evans-Pritchard and Clifford Geertz._x000D_
Each chapter of the book deals with a theory and analyzes the perspective of its authors, presents the main concepts, the critical values and provides a bibliography for further information. Eight theories of rel...read more
