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The successful three volumes of Nineteenth Century Religious Thought in the West provide a fresh appraisal of the most important thinkers of that time. Soames essays centre on major figures of the period; others cover topics, trends and schools of thought between the French Revolution and the First World War.
Chapter
On interpreting Nietzsche
Nietzsche's childhood faith and its repudiation
'Chemistry of concepts and sensations'
The eternal recurrence of the same
Prelude to a philosophy of the future
The attitude towards Christianity
Constitutive norms: Torah & tradition
4 The Study of the Old Testament
5 The Study of the New Testament
I Critical study of the history of the Greek text of the New Testament
II Criticism of the books said to be written by the Apostle John
III Criticism of the Synoptic Gospels
IV Criticism of the New Testament Epistles and the Acts of the Apostles
(a) The Catholic Epistles
(b) The Acts of the Apostles
(d) Conclusion to criticism of the Catholic Epistles, Acts, and the Pauline Epistles
6 Friedrich Max Müller and the Comparative Study of Religion
II Müller's thought and theories
Max Müller and the anthropological school
Solar mythology and philology
III Müller and the history of religions
7 Anthropology of Religion: British and French Schools
1. Nineteenth-century anthropological attitudes
2. Retrospect: some modern anthropological views of nineteenth century anthropologists
For Evans-Pritchard there was no question of absurdity:
4. The bottom rungs of the ladder of progress: fetishism,animism, totemism
5. Some implications of the comparative method: magic, manayand totemism as emergent proto-religions
6. Robertson Smith and the sociology of sacrifice
7. Magic, sorcery, witchcraft
8. Durkheim on the elementary forms of the religious life
II . Surveys of the anthropological study of religion during the nineteenth century
8 Max Weber and German Sociology of Religion
The phases of Weber's Religionssoziologie
The background to Weber's Religionssoziologie
Convergence and divergence in the crystallization of Religionssoziologie
The accumulated substance of Weber's Religionssoziologie
Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West: Volume 3
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