TY - BOOK AU - Jones,Charles B. ED - Teaching Company TI - Introduction to the study of religion T2 - The great courses SN - 1598033751 AV - LB 14.6 J76i 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - Chantilly, Va. PB - Teaching Co. KW - Education. KW - Teaching KW - Educación KW - Enseñanza KW - Religión KW - Filosofía KW - Estudio y enseñanza N1 - Course no. 6121; "Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover; v. 1. Lecture 1: Understanding "religion" (28 min.) -- Lecture 2: Theology and religious studies part ways (28 min.) -- Lecture 3: A clean break : David Hume (29 min.) -- Lecture 4: Auguste Comte: religion, false but necessary (28 min.) -- Lecture 5: Karl Marx : religion as oppression (31 min.) -- Lecture 6: Émile Durkheim : society's mirror (32 min.) -- Lecture 7: Max Weber : the motor of economics (31 min.) -- Lecture 8: Peter Berger : the sacred canopy (30 min.) -- Lecture 9: Rodney Stark : rational choice theory (31 min.) -- Lecture 10: William James : the description of religion (30 min.) -- Lecture 11: Sigmund Freud : the critique of religion (30 min.) -- Lecture 12: Carl Jung : the celebration of religion (30 min.). v. 2. Lecture 13: Brief excursus on Immanuel Kant (29 min.) -- Lecture 14: The Victorians and the Golden Bough (29 min.) -- Lecture 15: British functionalism (29 min.) -- Lecture 16: Symbolic anthropology : Ferdinand de Saussure (30 min.) -- Lecture 17: Symbolic anthropology : Claude Levi-Strauss (32 min.) -- Lecture 18: Symbolic anthropology : Clifford Geertz (32 min.) -- Lecture 19: From Fries to Otto (29 min.) -- Lecture 20: Mircea Eliade (30 min.) -- Lecture 21: The women's studies perspective (30 min.) -- Lecture 22: Theory versus reality : case studies (31 min.) -- Lecture 23: Theory in action : case studies (31 min.) -- Lecture 24: How religion uses religious studies (30 min.) N2 - A series of 24 lectures (28-32 min. each) given by Professor Charles B. Jones, Ph. D., Catholic University of America, about the concept of religion. Includes graphics ER -