THE INVENTION OF RELIGION

Table of Contents

Introduction

I. The History of Religions: A Western Science

1. Christian Culture and the History of Religions

2. Two Major Paradigms

3. A Nineteenth-Century Science

II. Autopsy of a Critical Paradigm

4. Religious Studies in the United States

5. The Targets

6. Major Criticisms

7. Major Contributions

III. What to do with ‘Religions’?

8. What Future for Critical Studies?

Conclusion

9 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Person and Author Index

Subject Index