APPROACHES TO STUDYING RELIGIONS

Based on its etymology, this word means " the study of God".

• Theology

• Religious Studies

• Comparative Studies

• Totems

This studies different religions of the world usually "from the outside".

• Comparative Religion

• Theology

• Religious Studies

• Anthropology

This is a branch of religious studies that systematically compares the doctrines and practices of the different world religions.

• Theology

• Religious Studies

• Comparative Religion

• Sociology

This deals with issues like whether the existence of God can be adequately proven and whether the existence of evil can be adequately demonstrated to be compatible with the goodness and power of God.

• psychology of religion

• sociology of religion

• philosophy of religion

• anthropology of religion

This person is the most influential proponent of comparative religion in the nineteenth century.

• Friedrich Max Muller

• James G. Frazer

• Mircea Eliade

• Karl Marx

He is a Christian theologian and philosopher famous for his five proofs for the existence of God.

• St Augustine

• St Thomas Aquinas

• St Anselm

• St Peter

He is the founder of psychoanalysis who saw religion as a childish illusion that serves as a mechanism for people to deal with their helplessness and anxiety

• William James

• Sigmund Freud

• Carl Jung

• Friedrich Max Muller

He saw religion, particularly the Protestant Church of Calvinism, as the one that created capitalism.

• William James

• Sigmund Freud

• Carl Jung

• Karl Mar

• Emile Durkheim

He saw the essence of religion, or the minimum defining property of religion, as "the belief in Spiritual Beings", which he called animism.

• Karl Marx

• Emile Durkheim

• Edward Burnett Tylor

• Sigmund Freud

He was the founder of analytic psychology who saw religion as a way of making person whole.

• Sigmund Freud

• Carl Jung

• William James

• Karl Marx