Influential Figures
- Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach (1845), and Das Kapital (1867)
- James Frazer, The Golden Bough (1890)
- Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905)
- Sigmund Freud, Totem and Taboo (1913), The Future of an Illusion (1927)
- René Girard, Violence and the Sacred (1972)
- Rudolf Otto, The Idea of the Holy (1917)
- Carl Jung, Psychology and Religion: West and East (1938)
- Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces (1949), The Power of Myth (1988)
- Alan Watts, Myth and Ritual in Christianity (1953)
- Clifford Geertz, The Religion of Java (1960)
- Wilfred Cantwell Smith, The Meaning and End of Religion (1962)
- E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Theories of Primitive Religion (1965)
- Peter L. Berger, The Sacred Canopy (1967)
- Ninian Smart, The Religious Experience of Mankind (1969) (retitled The Religious Experience in 1991 edition)
- Victor Turner, The Ritual Process (1969)
- J.Z. Smith, Map is not Territory: Studies in the History of Religions (1978)
- David Chidester, Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa (1996)
- Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam (1993)
- Mark C. Taylor, Critical Terms for Religious Studies (1998)
- Tomoko Masuzawa, The Invention of World Religions (2005)
- Bruce Lincoln, Discourse and the Construction of Society (1989)
- Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques (1955)
- Caroline Walker Bynum, Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion (1991)
- Catherine Bell, Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice (1992)
- Charles H. Long, Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion (1986)
Read more about this topic: Religious Studies
Famous quotes containing the words influential and/or figures:
“This is what no one warns you about, when you decide to have children. There is so much written about the cost and the changes in your way of life, but no one ever tells you that what they are going to hand you in the hospital is power, whether you want it or not.... I should have known, but somehow overlooked for a time, that parents become, effortlessly, just by showing up, the most influential totems in the lives of their children.”
—Anna Quindlen (20th century)
“But that wasn’t fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to
people they say Oh yes, they’re the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)