Introducing religion: readings from the classic theorists

Introduction

Animism and the origin of religion / E.B. Tylor

Magic and the rise of religion / James Frazer

Religion as neurosis / Sigmund Freud

The social as sacred / Emile Durkheim

Religion as agent of economic oppression / Karl Marx

The testimony of religious experience / William James

Religion and the sense of the "numinous" / Rudolf Otto

Religion and culture interwoven / Max Weber

Religion as response to the sacred / Mircea Eliade

Primitive religion and modern theories / E.E. Evans-Pritchard

Religion as world-view and ethic / Clifford Geertz.