Concept

Theories about religion

Overview

metatheories of religion in the social sciences

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Related ideas

• Cult
• Belief
• Social system
• Ernst Troeltsch
• Hinduism
• Herodotus
• Andrew Lang
• Counterculture
• Rodney Stark
• Verstehen
• Ethnography
• Mircea Eliade
• Judaism
• Karl Marx
• Marx's theory of alienation
• Comparative religion
• Exponential growth
• Polytheism
• Max Weber
• Monotheism
• New religious movement
• Worldview
• Bronisław Malinowski
• Oracle

Place in the tradition

Part of Outline of philosophy.

Narrower topics:

• Counterculture
• E. E. Evans-Pritchard
• Exponential growth
• Java
• William Sims Bainbridge
• Totem and Taboo
• Robert Ranulph Marett
• The Religion of China
• Religious organization
• The Golden Bough (painting)
• Theory of religious economy
• Golden Bough (Aeneid)
• Deviance (sociology)
• Robin W. G. Horton

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