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Far From Promoting An Anti-religious Or Materialistic Agenda, The Science Of Religion Opened Up Cultural Space For An Exploration Of Religion That Was Not Constricted By The Terms Of Contemporary Conflicts Over Darwin And The Bible And That Made It Possible To Think In New And More Flexible Ways About The Very Definition Of Religion. The Study Of Religion Before 1860 -- Friedrich Max Muller: The Annunciation Of A New Science -- Edward B. Tylor: The Forging Of An Anthropological Orthodoxy -- Andrew Lang: The Antipositivist Critique -- William Robertson Smith: A New Departure -- James G. Frazer: The Orthodoxy Monumentalized -- Jane Ellen Harrison: The Redefinition Of Religion. Marjorie Wheeler-barclay. Bibliographic Level Mode Of Issuance: Monograph Includes Bibliographical References (p.289-304) And Index. English