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Captive Gods: Religion and the Rise of Social Science
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Books > Theology > Philosophy
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| Author/Artist: |
KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH |
| ISBN / ID: |
9780300233063 |
| Publisher: |
Yale U Press |
| Binding: |
HARDBACK |
| Price: |
AU$39.95 |
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| Description: |
Kwame Anthony Appiah argues that modern social science emerged through the study of religion, which early thinkers treated as central to understanding society itself. Focusing on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century figures such as Edward Burnett Tylor, Emile Durkheim, Georg Simmel, and Max Weber, Appiah shows how their attempts to define, or deliberately avoid defining, religion shaped the development of sociology as a discipline. For these scholars, religion was not just an object of analysis but a conceptual framework for thinking about social cohesion, meaning, and values.
Appiah highlights how the strengths and limits of their theories continue to influence contemporary social thought. He also connects these foundational debates to later work in interpretive sociology and evolutionary and cognitive psychology, which explore how communities form beliefs. By blending history, philosophy, and narrative, Appiah demonstrates that our ideas about society and culture have been, and continue to be, forged in dialogue with religious questions. |
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