1. Eliade and Weber on Religion
With his notion of the sacred and profane, Eliade is in a sense motioning towards religious experiences of hierophanies as a cause that brings order, rather than an effect, which the reductionist seems to notion. ... Hence, Weber grants to religion a molding power that it lacks in the theories of Durkheim and other reductionists such as Marx and Freud, who "account for religious ideas and actions as the result of some other cause – something more real and more basic, of which they are the mere expression, or effect" (238). ... By doing so, he provides a deeper understanding o...
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