Richard Newton is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, USA.Vaia Touna is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, USA.

This book represents the field’s historical richness and curiosities like no other. 13 modern scholars of religion are in conversation with a partner from the field’s past; the engagements are sometimes contrary, often celebratory, and always insightful. The volume is a model of how to read the founders and ancestors of the critical study of religion.

• List of ContributorsPreface: Taking Notes in the Field of Religious Studies: Critical Methods, Vaia Touna (The University of Alabama, USA)Introduction: Revisiting the Past…, Again, Aaron W. Hughes and Russell T. McCutcheon (The University of Alabama, USA)1. Friedrich Max Muller, Brent Nongbri (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway)2. William James, Emily Clark (Gonzaga University, USA)3. Edward B. Tylor, Mitsutoshi Horii (Shumei University, Japan)4. Joseph Kitagawa, Christopher M. Jones(Washburn University, USA)5. James Frazer, Krista Dalton(Kenyon College in Gambier, USA)6. Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Edith Szanto (The University of Alabama, USA)7. Sigmund Freud, Robyn Walsh (University of Miami, USA)8. Gerardus van der Leeuw, Tenzan Eaghll (Rajamangala University of Technology krungthep, Thailand)9. Rudolf Otto, Martha Smith Roberts (Fullerton College, USA)10. Carl Jung, Lauren Griffin11. Bronislaw Malinowski, Brett Esaki(University of Arizona, USA)12. Mircea Eliade, Joseph Winters (Duke University, USA)13. Max Weber, Andrew Tobolowsky (College of William and Mary, USA)Afterword: Revisiting Classics and Plotting Futures for the Field of Religious Studies, Richard Newton (The University of Alabama, USA)NotesBibliographyIndex