The End(s) of Religion - A History of How the Study of Religion Makes Religion Irrelevant

List of contents

Preface
Introduction Very Brief Comments to Get Us Started
1. The Ethical/Philosophical Function of Religion: Kant, Hegel, and So Forth
2. The Sociological Function of Religion: Durkheim and Weber
3. The Psychological Function of Religion: Freud, Jung, and Beyond
4. The Existential Function of Religion: Eliade and Tillich
Interlude
5. The Religion of Culture
6. What Happens Next? Some Concluding Remarks
Postscript: A Cautionary Tale
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Eric Bain-Selbo is Dean at School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indiana University Kokomo, USA.

Summary

Shows how the study of religion has separated out the ends or goals of religion and thus created the conditions by which institutional religion is increasingly irrelevant in contemporary Western culture.

Foreword

Shows how the study of religion has separated out the ends or goals of religion and thus created the conditions by which institutional religion is increasingly irrelevant in contemporary Western culture.

Additional text

This wonderful book has managed to pull off a rather remarkable feat: the drawing of a clean line from foundational analysts of religion to the present and future state of religious studies. Eric Bain-Selbo is at once concise and sprawling; critical yet graceful; cautious while taking risks; and optimistic though starkly real in The End(s) of Religion.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Bain-Selbo, Eric (Indiana University Kokomo Bain-Selbo, Bain-Selbo Eric
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.02.2022
• EAN: 9781350045255
• ISBN: 978-1-350-04525-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Institutions & Organizations, Religious issues & debates, RELIGION / Christian Living / General, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Religious institutions and organizations, Humanist & Secular Alternatives To Religion, Religious issues and debates, Humanist and secular alternatives to religion, institutional religion; religion and popular culture