Religion and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation (Hardcover)

1. Hermeneutics and the philosophical future of religious studies; 2. Bernard Williams on the gods and us; 3. Hume's legacy; 4. Feuerbach: religion's secret; 5. Marx and Engels: religion, alienation and compensation; 6. Tylor and Frazer: are religious beliefs mistaken hypotheses?; 7. Marett: primitive reactions; 8. Freud: the battle for 'earliest' things; 9. Durkheim: religion as a social construct; 10. Levy-Bruhl: primitive logic; 11. Berger: the avoidance of discourse; 12. Which: trying to understand; 13. Understanding: a philosophical vocation.