Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index.
Contents
Karl Marx and cultural materialism -- Emile Durkheim and functionalism -- Max Weber -- Sigmund Freud and the psychological tradition -- Rudolf Otto : the idea of the holy -- Sociology, methodological atheism and secularisation -- Psychological approaches -- Phenomenology and the history of religion -- Feminism, gender and religion -- Anthropological approaches to religion -- Some final words -- Ritual -- Symbolism -- Myth -- Last words.