Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion: Aims, Methods and Theories of Research. Introduction and Anthology

Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion: Aims, Methods and Theories of Research. Introduction and Anthology

Jean J. Waardenburg (Author), Jacques Waardenburg (Author)



* Paperback: 742 pages
* Publisher: Walter de Gruyter (August 1999)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 3110163284
* ISBN-13: 9783110163285


Tracing the rise of the scholarly study of religion from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, this textbook on the history of the scholarly study of religion is suitable for courses on the problems of method and theory as treated by the founders of the discipline.



About the Author
Professor Waardenburg taught at the Universities of California (UCLA) and Utrecht (Netherlands) before holding the chair of Religionswissenschaft at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). - He compiled this book at the beginning of the seventies when lively discussions about the nature of the scholarly study of religion(s) developed internationally.

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