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Classical Approaches to the Study of ReligionAims, Methods, and Theories of Research. Introduction and Anthology&#160;Waardenburg, Jacques, De Gruyter, 2017Preface by McCutcheon, Russell T. Waardenburg’s magisterial essay traces the rise and development of the academic study of religion from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, outlining the establishment of the discipline, its connections with other fields, religion as a subject of research, and perspectives on a phenomenological study of religion. Futhermore a second part comprises an anthology of texts from 41 scholars whose work was programmatic in the evolution of the academic study of religion. Each chapter presents a particular approach, theory, and method relevant to the study of religion. The pieces selected for this volume were taken from the discipline of religious studies as well as from related fields, such as anthropology, sociology, and psychology, to name a few.(Text by the author)&#160;Contents&#160;Foreword: Plus ça changePreface to the Paperback Edition&#160;Introduction: View of a Hundred Years’ Study of ReligionPreliminaryHistorical SurveyLooking Back&#160;AnthologyIntroductory Note&#160;Part One: The Study of Religion Established as an Autonomous Discipline&#160;F. Max MüllerPlea for a Science of ReligionThe Comparative Study of ReligionsCornelis P. Tiele‘Elements of the Science of Religion’‘Elements of the Science of Religion’Pierre D. Chantepie de la Saussaye‘The Science of Religion’Phenomenology of Religion&#160;Part Two: Connections with Other Disciplines&#160;Johann J. Bachofen‘Symbol and Myth’Matriarchy and ReligionErnest Renan - Vindication of a Critical MindN. D. Fustel de Coulanges - ‘The Necessity of Studying the Earliest Beliefs of the Ancients in Order to Understand their Institutions’Julius Wellhausen - Historical Research on the PentateuchWilliam Robertson Smith - The Study of the Religion of the SemitesFriedrich C. G. Delitzsch - ‘Babel and Bible’Albert Schweitzer - ‘The Quest of the Historical Jesus’William James - The Study of Religious ExperienceHerbert Spencer - ‘Ancestor-Worship’Edward B. Tylor - ‘Animism’Andrew Lang - ‘The Making of Religion’James George Frazer - ‘The Golden Bough’ and the Study of ReligionRobert R. Marett - ‘The Tabu-Mana Formula as a Minimum Definition of Religion’Wilhelm Schmidt‘The Origin and Growth of Religion’‘The Quest of the Supreme Being’Arnold van Gennep - ‘On the Method to be Followed in the Study of Rites and Myths’Emile Durkheim - ‘The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life’Marcel Mauss - Classification Systems and ReligionLucien Lévy-Bruhl - ‘Primitive Mentality’ and ReligionMax Weber - Symbolic Meaning and ReligionSigmund Freud -Religion as Illusion‘The Question of a Weltanschauung’The Story of Religion&#160;Part Three: Religion as a Special Subject of Research&#160;Nathan Söderblom‘The Origin of the Belief in God’‘The Living God’William Brede Kristensen - On the Study of Religious PhenomenaGerardus van der Leeuw‘Some Recent Achievements of Psychological Research and their Application to History, in Particular the History of Religion’On Phenomenology and its Relation to TheologyOn ‘Understanding’‘Religion in Essence and Manifestation’Beauty and HolinessRudolf Otto‘The Idea of the Holy’Religious HistoryFriedrich Heiler‘Prayer’‘The Scholarly Study of Religion’Heinrich Frick - ‘The Aim of the Comparative Study of Religions’ (‘Typology’)Joachim WachReligion and SocietyOn Comparative Studies in Religion‘Universals in Religion’‘The Concept of the “Classical” in the Study of Religions’‘The Meaning and Task of the History of Religions (Religionswissenschaft)’&#160;Part Four: Later Contributions from Other Disciplines&#160;Carl Gustav JungOn ‘Psychology of Religion’On Myths and ArchetypesBronislaw Malinowski - The Study of ‘Primitive Man’ and His ReligionRobert H. Lowie - On the Term ‘Religion’Paul Radin‘The Nature and Substance of Religion’‘Primitive Man as Philosopher’The Religious and the Non-Religious ManAlfred R. Radcliffe-Brown - ‘Religion and Society’Martin P. NilssonOn Method and TheoryOn the Advancements Made in the Study of Greek ReligionOn ReligionWalter F. OttoOn the Study of Greek Religion: ‘The Homeric Gods’On the Greek Gods and on Myth&#160;Part Five: Perspectives of a Phenomenological Study of Religion&#160;Raffaele Pettazzoni - ‘“History” and “Phenomenology” in the Science of Religion’Hendrik Kraemer - On the Presuppositions and Limits of the Science of ReligionMax Scheler - Psychology, ‘Concrete’ and ‘Essential’ Phenomenology of ReligionGaston Berger - On Phenomenological Research in the Field of Religion&#160;Sources and AcknowledgmentsIndexesIntroductory NoteIndex of Personal NamesIndex of Scholarly ConceptsIndex of Concrete Subjects