- The Past
and Future of Theory and Method?
- The Atlantic
Monthly
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/95nov/warring/indiffer.htm
["Universities and Religious Indifference," by Bernard Iddings Bell was
published in the magazine in September 1932, and was reprinted in November
1995. Although well intentioned, the author sounds what has to be a wrong note
today by writing as if the word 'religion' were simply interchangeable with the
word 'Christian'. Also see the list of
archived articles relevant to religion and its study.]
- Ancient
Methods of Inquiry Socratic Greece
- Ancient Greece:
Chronology
http://eawc.evansville.edu/chronology/grpage.htm
[Chronological context for Exploring Ancient World Cultures
resources at Evansville University.]
- The Last Days of Socrates
http://socrates.clarke.edu/
[An excellent series of pages from Clarke College in Iowa. Four early dialogues
(the Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo) are the basis for this useful web
resource.]
- Plato's Tetralogies
http://plato-dialogues.org/tetralog.htm
[An ambitious resource that divides the Platonic dialogues into the traditional
groups of four and develops teaching categories on that basis.]
- Early
Modern Emphasis on Method: René Descartes (1596-1650)
- René
Descartes
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/descarte.htm
[A brief biography and philosophical assessment.]
- The Window:
Philosophers
http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/phil/philo/phils/descartes.html
[Another brief introduction. For similar introductions to several other
philosophers, see The
Window index page.]
- Basic
works in English translation:
- Discourse on
Method
http://www.religiousworlds.com/text/demethod.html
- Meditations on
First Philosophy tr. by John Veitch
See also the translation by Jonathan Bennett in PDF
format.
- Enlightenment Naturalism and Skepticism: David
Hume
- David Hume (1711-1776)
http://www.iep.utm.edu/h/humelife.htm
[Introduction to the life and works of the philosopher. See also The Hume Society and and its journal Hume Studies.]
- Modern
Reason and Subjectivity: Kant, Hegel, Fries, Otto, and
Nietzsche
- Immanuel Kant
(1724-1804)
http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/Kant.html
[Begin with the above link to Steve Palmquist's excellent "Kant on the Web"
page in Hong Kong. Among encyclopedia treatments, see Philosophy of Immanuel
Kant in the online edition of the old Catholic Encyclopedia. Also see
Immanuel Kant
Links. Finally, from the Department of Philosophy at the University of
California at Davis, see G. J. Mattey's Kant Lexicon and
other Kant
resources.]
- G. W. F. Hegel
(1770-1831)
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel/
[A basic introduction to the polymath in his role as a philosopher of history.
See also G. W. F.
Hegel.Org.]
- Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773-1843)
http://www.friesian.com/
[The page for The Proceedings of the Friesian School is the place to
begin.]
- Rudolf Otto (1869-1937)
http://www.friesian.com/otto.htm
- Frederich Wilhelm
Nietzsche (1844-1900)
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/
[See also the article on Nihilism from the Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy.]
- New
World Metaphysics: American Pragmatism
- William James
(1842-1910)
http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/james.html
[Well presented links to writings by James and commentary on James at a page
maintained by Professor Frank Pajares at Emory University. Do not miss James'
own essay on "the Ph.D. octopus" there. Locally available is The Webbing of William
James, by Marc Fonda.]
- Process
Thought
- Alfred North
Whitehead (1861-1947)
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/whitehead/
- Systems
Theory
- Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)
http://www.oikos.org/baten.htm
[See also the Wikipedia entry on
Bateson.]
- Perennialism, Primordialism, or
Neo-Traditionalism
[See the Wikipedia entry and the
site established by historian Mark
Sedgwick.]
- Titus Burckhardt
(1908-1984)
- Frithjof Schuon
(1907-1998)
- Huston Smith (b.
1919)
[He offers a point of entry into his life and thought at his own web site, too.]
- Ken
Wilber
[A home page sponsored by Shambhala publishers. One of Wilber's critics is
sociologist and cult-watcher David C. Lane who has a multi-faceted page called
Neural Surfer.]
- Mythology and Psychology
- Joseph Campbell (1904-87)
http://www.jcf.org/new/index.php
[Joseph Campbell Foundation home page - commemorative and
commercial.]
- Mircea Eliade
(1907-1986)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mircea_Eliade
[See also the useful Proceedings of the
Friesian School.]
- Sigmund Freud
(1856-1940)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
[See also links on, about, and in response to Freud.]
- Carl Gustav Jung
(1905-1961)
[There are several Jung sites, including the Jung Web. See also a short glossary of Jungian terms that is
part of the C. G. Jung Page. Also worth
noting is Marc Fonda's Notes on Jung which
includes his lecture notes on Jung's Answer to Job. Finally, the
Archetypal Astrology
page of Michael McLay at the University of Missouri has a list of Jung links
and the Guild for Psychological Studies
in San Francisco is one of the several professional organizations devoted to
Analytical Psychology.]
- Personality and
Consciousness
http://www.wynja.com/personality/theorists.html
[Brief sketches and links on theorists Freud, Jung, Adler, Kelly, Lewin,
Maslow, Rogers, Skinner, Tart, and Buddhist psychology. Part of a site on
Greater Anthropology
maintained by Eric Pettifor of Simon Fraser University.]
- Charles T.
Tart
http://www.religiousworlds.com/mystic/tartlink.html
[Links and resources concerning the work of a contributer toward a
state-specific theory of consciousness that could have relevance for the
interpreation of religious experience.]
- Sociology and Anthropology
- Dead Sociologists'
Index
[A well-organized collection of links to sites providing information about
Addams, Comte, Cooley, DuBois, Durkheim, Martineau, Marx, Mead, Pareto, Park,
Simmel, Sorokin, Spencer, Thomas, Veblen, Weber. Maintained by Larry R.
Ridener.]
- Ernest Becker
http://faculty.washington.edu/nelgee/
[A page for the Ernest Becker foundation which offers recent articles inspired
by Becker's work.]
- Peter L. Berger (b. 1929)
http://www.bu.edu/religion/faculty/bios/berger.html
[See the entry in Wikipedia
and a brief synopsis of Berger's homeless mind
thesis.]
- Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)
http://durkheim.uchicago.edu/
[Durkheim Pages created by Robert Alun Jones. See, in particular, his summary
treatment of Durkheim's Elementary Forms of the
Religious Life.]
- René
Girard
http://starwww.uibk.ac.at/theologie/theologie-en.html
[A searchable database for Girard at Innsbruck.]
- Max Weber
(1864-1920)
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/moriyuki/abukuma/
[Moriyuki Abukuma's excellent Weberian sociology of religion web
site.]
- Economics
- Economics of Religion
http://www.economicsofreligion.com/
[A resource page maintained by Laurence R.
Iannaccone of George Mason University.]
- Templeton Foundation
http://www.templeton.org/
[Information about grants awarded and projects funded in science and
spirituality.]
- Christian
Theology and Economics: A Reading Guide
http://www.zadok.org.au/papers/oslington/oslington9808.shtml
[A bibliography by Paul Oslington.]
- Other
Theory and Method Pages
- Dictionary of
Feminist Theologies
http://www.yale.edu/adhoc/research_resources/dictionary/
[Mainly Christian and North American in its focus.]
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