Explaining Religion: Criticism and Theory from Bodin to Freud

James Samuel Preus

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How is religion to be explained, if the existence of God is not a presupposition? According to J. Samuel Preus, this is the critical question that gave rise to the scientific study of religion and that distinguishes it from theological approaches. Preus examines the work of nine seminal figures--among them Bodin, Hume and Freud--to explain how we have arrived at current ideas about religion.

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