DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Introduction to the study of religion / Charles B. Jones ; producer, Jennifer Gray ; directors, Jon Leven, Jim Allen.

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., ©2007.

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 136 pages ; 19 cm).

A series of 24 lectures (28-32 min. each) given by Professor Charles B. Jones, Ph. D., Catholic University of America, about the concept of religion. Includes graphics.

Great courses

Great courses (DVD). Religion.

Hume, David, 1711-1776.

Comte, Auguste, 1798-1857.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917.

Weber, Max, 1864-1920.

Berger, Peter L., 1929-2017.

Stark, Rodney.

James, William, 1842-1910.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Saussure, Ferdinand de, 1857-1913.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude.

Geertz, Clifford.

Fries, Jakob Friedrich, 1773-1843.

Otto, Rudolf, 1869-1937.

Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986.

Religion -- Study and teaching.

Religion -- Philosophy.

Symbolic anthropology.

Instructional films.

Educational films.

Lectures.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Jones, Charles Brewer, 1957-

Gray, Jennifer.

Leven, Jon.

Allen, Jim.

Teaching Company.

Study of religion

Course no. 6121.

Guide Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-136).

Camera, Alexis Doty, Lonnie Harrell, Jim Allen.

Lectures by Charles B. Jones.

DVD format. Standard presentation.

Part 1. Lecture 1: Understanding "religion" (28 min.) -- Lecture 2: Theology and religious studies part ways (28 min.) -- Lecture 3: A clean break : David Hume (29 min.) -- Lecture 4: Auguste Comte: religion, false but necessary (28 min.) -- Lecture 5: Karl Marx : religion as oppression (31 min.) -- Lecture 6: Émile Durkheim : society's mirror (32 min.) -- Lecture 7: Max Weber : the motor of economics (31 min.) -- Lecture 8: Peter Berger : the sacred canopy (30 min.) -- Lecture 9: Rodney Stark : rational choice theory (31 min.) -- Lecture 10: William James : the description of religion (30 min.) -- Lecture 11: Sigmund Freud : the critique of religion (30 min.) -- Lecture 12: Carl Jung : the celebration of religion (30 min.).

Part 2. Lecture 13: Brief excursus on Immanuel Kant (29 min.) -- Lecture 14: The Victorians and the Golden Bough (29 min.) -- Lecture 15: British functionalism (29 min.) -- Lecture 16: Symbolic anthropology : Ferdinand de Saussure (30 min.) -- Lecture 17: Symbolic anthropology : Claude Levi-Strauss (32 min.) -- Lecture 18: Symbolic anthropology : Clifford Geertz (32 min.) -- Lecture 19: From Fries to Otto (29 min.) -- Lecture 20: Mircea Eliade (30 min.) -- Lecture 21: The women's studies perspective (30 min.) -- Lecture 22: Theory versus reality : case studies (31 min.) -- Lecture 23: Theory in action : case studies (31 min.) -- Lecture 24: How religion uses religious studies (30 min.).

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