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This pertinent short history illustrates the leading issues
separating the theist from the atheist and agnostic, and sheds
light on world events and the inconsistencies inherent in
supernaturalism and theistic theories. Thrower discusses atheism
both as a reaction to belief and as a separate and consistent form
of belief in a world stripped of the divine, where reason, science,
and humankind's endless search for knowledge flourish.
What is Religion?' This is the first text to review in a single
volume the theories of religion which have been put forward by both
believers and non-believers. 'Why theories of religion?' After
raising and answering this question the author begins his
examination of theories of religion by first looking at the
explanations given by religious believers (Revelation and Religious
Experience). He then considers the views of thinkers who have
sought to transform religion into philosophy (Plato, Kant and
Hegel), before reviewing the theories of those who have seen
religion as arising out of errors in primitive thinking (Tylor,
Frazer and Levy-Bruhl) and those 'masters of suspicion', as Paul
Ricoeur has called them (Feuerbach, Nietzsche, Marx and Freud) who
offered what they believed to be exhaustive psychological and
sociological theories of the origin and nature of religion. In the
course of his discussion the author also engages with many
contemporary thinkers whose discussions of religion have been based
on these classical accounts. In a brief conclusion the author tries
to assess the future of the religions of the world in light of the
increasingly close inter-religious encounters that are becoming a
feature of the 'global village' of thetwenty-first century. Key
Features * Comprehensive survey of the field * Theories will be
considered against the phenomenon of religion world-wide * Theories
offered in a way that lets the student make up his or her own mind
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