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study of religion: Quick Facts

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Charles Sprague Pearce: Religion
Portrait of Karl Barth, Swiss theologian, wearing round glasses, a suit, and tie, photographed in 1957 with a slight smile.
Hesiod
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, shown in dark robes and cap, writing with a quill at a desk, after Quinten Massijs, oil on panel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Profile portrait of Immanuel Kant facing right, framed by a green Ouroboros serpent forming an oval, with a geometric symbol below the frame.
Max Müller
Rudolf Otto
Claude Levi-Strauss wearing large glasses, a dark suit, and a red tie, standing indoors at his office in the College de France, Paris.
Karl Marx
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