Introducing Religion: Readings from the Classic Theorists Book

Seems like the sort of book meant to be more of a dry reference or gateway to later readings that actually interest you from the various excerpts within. Theosophers and religious teachers with unique and tedious to read styles, one chapter is written by Karl Marx, the next by E.B. Tylor. You might find one or two of these random eleven authors of relevance to your research, but their theories are so different that I doubt someone would take interest in this entire book from start to finish. You might only read bits and pieces. I enjoyed reading about James Frazer for instance, and due to this introductory book, I was able to narrow down my focus, and ended up later purchasing 'The Golden Bough' by Frazer to get the full context of one of his works. This book has very different sections, and offers only a fraction of the theory or philosophy about the original works it quotes. Each author's writing is limited to one little chapter, hardly capable of encumbering an author's full context until further reading, so the title of "Introducing Religion" is very fitting. It is only introductory.