This book is now firmly established as the standard treatment of its subject. The history of comparative religion is traced in detail from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, in the work of scholars such as Max Muller and anthropologists - such as Tylor, Lang, Robertson-Smith and Frazer - through the American psychologists of religion - such as Starbuck, Leuba, William James - to the period after the First World War, when the evolutionary approach was seriously called into question. It also examines the relevance of religion to Freud and Jung; the 'phenomenology of religion'; the tensions between comparative religion and theology; and the work of such outstanding personalities as Nathan Soederblom and Rudolf Otto. The last two chapters review the main issues raised since the Second World War.
- ISBN10 0715608975
- ISBN13 9780715608975
- Publish Date 21 August 1975 (first published 30 September 1971)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Duckworth Overlook
- Imprint Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 328
- Language English