In Search of Origins Author : Garry Trompf ISBN : 1932705511 Price : Rs.600 Booktype : Hardcover Pages : 285 Category : Philosophy and Religion
About book The only book of its kind covering both the history of the last two centurie’s speculations in the West about the origin of religion, and by a scholar who is both an historian of ideas and a trained prehistorian. “No up-to-date work has hitherto focused on the problem of the origins of religion, and none has related the history of theory to the practice of prehistorians. It…….. fills an important gap in Religious Studies.” Social Action,1990 The author presents the background of the earliest religious and had developed paradigms and tools for an open-minded study of the subject.” Vedanta Kesari, 1990 “Because of its impact in China, I rate it among the famous books of Religious Studies in the Western world.” (Professor )Hong Xiuping, Najing , China, 2002 “Garry Tromph does not fall into any methodological fallacy; ………he does not look for a hypothetical Ursprung uncorroborated by facts, and exposes the ‘vicious circle’ of non- causal theories proposed by various social theorists and psychoanalysts that are neither verifiable nor falsifiable.” (Professor ) Cristiano Camporesi, Florence Italy 2004”
About author Garry Trompf is professor in the History of Ideas at the University of Sydney. He was formerly professor of History at the University of Papua New Guinea, and has been visiting professor to the Universities of California (Santa Cruz), Utrecht, and Edinburgh, and to the Carl Jung Institute, Zurich. He is the author of more than fifteen books on historical and religious subjects, including The Idea of Historical Recurrence in Western Thought Melanesian Religion; and The World of Religions. He is Founding editor of various monograph series, including Gnostica and Religion, Politics and Society; and is Chairman of the Association of the Journal of Religious History.