Theory

Reading List for MA Comprehensive Exams

Choose those marked with an * plus two more. 

Allport, Gordon, "The Religious Context of Prejudice.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 5 (1966):447-457. 

*Bell, Catherine.  Ritual:  Perspectives and Dimensions.  

Clift, Wallace.  Jung and Christianity.

Dixon, Sandra Lee.  Augustine: The Scattered and Gathered Self. ch. 1 and 2.

*Durkheim, Emile.  The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.

Erikson, Erik H.  Young Man Luther or Gandhi's Truth.

Gimbutas, Marija.  The Living Goddesses.

King, Richard.  Orientalism and Religion:  Postcolonial Theory, India and "the Mystic East."  (Introduction and Chaps. 1-5)

Freud, Sigmund.  Civilization and Its Discontents.

*Freud, Sigmund  Totem and Taboo.

Jung, Carl, “Aion” in Portable Jung or Psyche and Symbol

McIntosh, Daniel N., “Religion-as-Schema, with Implications for the Relation Between Religion and Coping.”  International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 5 (1995):1-16.

*Roy, Olivier. Globalized Islam.

Said, Edward.  Orientalism.  

*Smith, Jonathan Z.  Imagining Religion.

Taylor, Mark C.  About Religion.