Although Tylor undertook a field trip to Mexico, both he and Frazer derived most of the material for their comparative studies through extensive reading, not fieldwork, mainly the Classics ( literature and history of Greece and Rome ), the work of the early European folklorists, and reports from missionaries, travelers, and contemporaneous ethnologists.

His comparative analyses of religion, government, material culture, and especially kinship patterns proved to be influential contributions to the field of anthropology.

Around 190 AD under the leadership of the scholar Pantanaeus, the school of Alexandria became an important institution of religious learning, where students were taught by scholars such as Athenagoras, Clement, Didymus, and the native Egyptian Origen, who was considered the father of theology and who was also active in the field of commentary and comparative Biblical studies.

Ethnology has been considered an academic field since the late 18th century especially in Europe and is sometimes conceived of as any comparative study of human groups.

Franz Bopp, pioneer in the field of comparative linguistic studies.

Political science is commonly divided into three distinct sub-disciplines which together constitute the field: political philosophy, comparative politics and international relations.

Perhaps his best-known work in this field is Bidāyat al-Mujtahid wa Nihāyat al-Muqtaṣid ( بداية المجتهد و نهاية المقتصد ), a textbook of Maliki doctrine in a comparative framework.

Perhaps his best-known work in this field is " Bidāyat al-Mujtahid wa Nihāyat al-Muqtaṣid, " a textbook of Maliki doctrine in a comparative framework, which is renderd in English as The Distinguished Jurist's Primer —.

Robert Mearns Yerkes ( May 26, 1876 – February 3, 1956 ) was an American psychologist, ethologist, and primatologist best known for his work in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology.

However, it is also worth mentioning that R. Torrens was an actual pioneer in the field of theoretical basis for the theory of comparative advantage.

For the Indo-European languages, comparative study is now a highly specialised field.

In addition, the work of Jim Ruddy in the field of comparative philosophy, combined the concept of Transcendental Ego in Husserl's phenomenology with the concept of the primacy of self-consciousness in the work of Sankaracharya.

Studies in the field of comparative linguistics have shown it to be the most conservative living Indo-European language.

Hornbostel did much work in the field of ethnomusicology, then usually referred to as comparative musicology.

Broca also contributed significantly to the field of comparative anatomy of primates.

In the field of historical and comparative linguistics, sequence alignment has been used to partially automate the comparative method by which linguists traditionally reconstruct languages.

Missiology is a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural field of study incorporating theology, anthropology, history, geography, theories and methods of communication, comparative religion, Christian apologetics, methodology, and interdenominational relations.

For example, in his treatise on mineralogy, Kitab al-Jamahir ( Book of Precious Stones ), he is " the most exact of experimental scientists ", while in the introduction to his study of India, he declares that " to execute our project, it has not been possible to follow the geometric method " and develops comparative sociology as a scientific method in the field.

The history of molecular evolution starts in the early 20th century with " comparative biochemistry ", but the field of molecular evolution came into its own in the 1960s and 1970s, following the rise of molecular biology.

In 1974, the International Progress Organization, with the support of UNESCO and under the auspices of Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor, held an international conference on " The Cultural Self-comprehension of Nations " ( Innsbruck, Austria, 27 – 29 July 1974 ) which called upon United Nations member states " to organize systematic and global comparative research on the different cultures of the world " and " to make all possible efforts for a more intensive training of diplomats in the field of international cultural co-operation ... and to develop the cultural aspects of their foreign policy.

Moreover, the publication also seems to be energetically carrying the torch of Hindu apologetics in the field of comparative religion.

Today comparative anatomy is still taught and used, particularly in the field of paleontology.

In a conference in 1960, chaired by Frank Beach, a pioneer in comparative psychology, and attended by luminaries in the field, the term was restricted in its application.

This brings us to the fact that the realities we are dealing with lie not in the field of civil legislation, but in the realm of conscience and religion: They are moral judgments and matters of theological belief.

7 Issue 2, pp 431 – 446 ; a new field since the 1980s ; favourite topics are work, family, religion, crime, and images of women ; scholars are using women's letters, memoirs, poetry, and court records.

Weber's work in the field of sociology of religion started with the essay The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and continued with the analysis of The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism and Ancient Judaism.

British sociologist Eileen Barker titled her 1984 book, which was based on seven years of first-person study of members of the Unification Church in the United States and Great Britain and has been influential in the field of the sociology of religion, The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing ?.

Today, philosophers have adopted the term philosophy of religion for the subject, and typically it is regarded as a separate field of specialization, although it is also still treated by some, particularly Catholic philosophers, as a part of metaphysics.

The religion and science community consists of those scholars who involve themselves with what has been called the " religion-and-science dialogue " or the " religion-and-science field.

The book met with a variety of responses, both positive and negative, from writers in the field of literature, psychiatry, philosophy and religion.

In the field of religion, Huxley ’ s friend and spiritual mentor, the Vedantic monk Swami Prabhavananda, thought that mescaline was an illegitimate path to enlightenment, a " deadly heresy " as Christopher Isherwood put it.

* Bonewits implies that thealogy is the Goddess-focused variant of a thealogy / polytheology cluster viewable as subsets of the broader field of the philosophy of religion.

Durkheim ’ s work on religion was heavily criticized on both empirical and theoretical grounds by specialists in the field.

Two of these games, one called Areyto, which included religious ceremonies, as well as another game similar to soccer, were played in the batéy ( an arena-like field flanked by huge standing stones depicting images of the Taino religion ).

In the field of religious studies more generally, Mack is known for popularizing the term " Social Formation ," originally coming from the work of Louis Althusser, as a descriptive category for religion.

McGrath also cites a metareview of 100 studies and argues that " If religion is reported as having a positive effect on human well-being by 79 % of recent studies in the field, how can it conceivably be regarded as analogous to a virus?

While the religion flourished these priests accompanied public officials, including generals in the field, and were consulted on everything of interest to the senate and people of Rome.

The four emblems are the cross in the field of red to represent religion, which was established with the earliest settlers ; the torch in the field of white representing education, which was established along with the church in the earliest days ; the cow in the royal purple, representing the farming upon which the county has always depended and the dairying which made the county famous far and wide ; and the wheel in the field of blue to represent the manufacturing here in the county.

In part, they also serve to illustrate or allude to Eliade's own research in the field of religion, as well as to the concepts he introduced.

Welcker was a pioneer in the field of archaeology, and was one of the first to insist, like Böckh and his pupil Karl Otfried Müller, on the necessity of co-ordinating the study of Greek art and religion with philology, in opposition to the methods of the older Hellenists, like Gottfried Hermann, which they perceived as too narrow.

In addition to the views of the two sides, various non-Buddhist and non-committed to any of the two side-academics in the field of religion and history, presented their perspectives in several books, such as Daniel A. Metraux's 2001 book The International Expansion of a Modern Buddhist Movement: and: How the Soka Gakkai became a Global Buddhist Movement, the 1998 Oxford University Press book A Time to Chant by B. Wilson and K. Dobberlaere and :" Encountering the Dharma " by prof. Richard Seager, as well as various other publications.

Further, I think that a psychoanalyst should have ... interests ... beyond the limits of the medical field ... in facts that belong to sociology, religion, literature, history ,... his outlook on ... his patient will remain too narrow.