Record details

• ISBN: 1598033735
• ISBN: 9781598033731
• Physical Description: 12 sound discs (ca. 6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 booklets.
• Publisher: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., [2007]

Content descriptions

General Note:

Compact discs.

In two containers (23 cm.).

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. 1. disc 1. lecture 1. Understanding "religion" lecture 2. Theology and religious studies part ways -- disc 2. lecture 3. A clean break : David Hume. lecture 4. Auguste Comte : religion, false but necessary -- disc 3. lecture 5. Karl Marx : religion as oppression. lecture 6. Emile Durkheim : society's mirror -- disc 4. lecture 7. Max Weber : the motor of economics. lecture 8. Peter Berger : the sacred canopy -- disc 5. lecture 9. Rodney Stark : rational choice theory. lecture 10. William James : the description of religion -- disc 6. lecture 11. Sigmund Freud : the critique of religion. lecture 12. Carl Jung : the celebration of religion.

pt 2. disc 7. lecture 13. Brief excursus on Immanuel Kant. lecture 14. The Victorians and the Golden Bough -- disc 8. lecture 15. British functionalism. lecture 16. Symbolic anthropology : Ferdinand de Saussure -- disc 9. lecture 17. Symbolic anthropology : Claude Levi-Strauss. lecture 18. Symbolic anthropology : Clifford Geertz -- disc 10. lecture 19. From Fries to Otto. lecture 20. Mircea Eliade -- disc 11. lecture 21. The women's studies perspective. lecture 22. Theory versus reality : case studies -- disc 12. lecture 23. Theory in action : case studies. lecture 24. How religion uses religious studies.

Participant or Performer Note:

Lecturer, Charles B. Jones.

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Subject:

Religion > Philosophy.
Religion > Study and teaching > History.

Genre:

Audiobooks.

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