Download PDF by Gary Kessler: Fifty Key Thinkers on Religion (Routledge Key Guides)

By Gary Kessler

ISBN-10: 0415492602

ISBN-13: 9780415492607

ISBN-10: 0415492610

ISBN-13: 9780415492614

Fifty Key Thinkers on Religion is an obtainable consultant to an important and generally studied theorists on faith of the final three hundred years. prepared chronologically, the publication explores the lives, works and concepts of key writers throughout a really interdisciplinary variety, from sociologists to psychologists.


Thinkers coated include:




  • Friedrich Nietzsche

  • James Frazer

  • Sigmund Freud

  • Emile Durkheim

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • Mary Douglas

  • Talal Asad

  • Søren Kierkegaard


Providing an quintessential one quantity map of our figuring out of faith within the west, the ebook is totally cross-referenced all through and gives authoritative publications to big basic and secondary texts for college students wishing to take their reports further.

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