Eight theories of religion /
Daniel L. Pals.
- 2nd ed.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- xi, 340 p. ; 21 cm.
Rev. ed. of: Seven theories of religion.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Animism and magic / E. B. Tylor and J. G. Frazer -- Religion and personality / Sigmund Freud -- Society as sacred / EÃÅmile Durkheim -- Religion as alienation / Karl Marx -- A source of social action / Max Weber -- The reality of the sacred / Mircea Eliade -- Society's "construct of the heart" / E. E. Evans-Pritchard -- Religion as cultural system / Clifford Geertz.