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Audra and C.
Brereton, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1935. |
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Eliade, M. (1949) Le mythe de l’éternel retour: archétypes et répétition, Paris: Gallimard; trans. W.R.
Trask, The Myth of the Eternal Return, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1954. |
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Eliade, M. (1949) Traité d’histoire des religions, Paris: Payot; trans. R.
Sheed, Patterns in Comparative Religion, New York: New American Library, 1958. (A rich, thematic study of a wide variety of phenomena.) |
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Frazer, Sir J.G. (1922) The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, New York: Macmillan, abridged edn, 1960. (An encyclopedic source of materials.) |
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James, W. (1902) The Varieties of Religious Experience, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985. (A classic study that includes a dyadic typology along with studies of conversion, saintliness and mysticism.) |
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Leeuw, G. van der (1933) Phänomenologie der Religion, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck); trans. J.E.
Turner, Religion in Essence and Manifestation: A Study in Phenomenology, New York: Harper & Row, 1963. (First major study to call itself a phenomenology of religion.) |
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Otto, R. (1917) Das Heilige, Gotha: L. Klotz; trans. J.W. Harvey, The Idea of the Holy, New York: Oxford University Press, 1958. (Classic source of descriptions of the holy as ‘Wholly Other’ and as mysterium tremendum et fascinans.) |
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Ricoeur, P. (1960) La symbolique du mal, Paris, Aubier; trans. E.
Buchanan, The Symbolism of Evil, New York: Harper & Row, 1967. (Rich study of the symbolic and mythological dimensions of religion, with a fourfold typology.) |
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Westphal, M. (1984) God, Guilt, and Death: An Existential Phenomenology of Religion, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. (A comprehensive, introductory study that includes discussion of methodology and the essence of religion along with a triadic typology.) |