Religion as a Human Capacity, A Festschrift in Honor of E. Thomas Lawson.

Religion as a Human Capacity, A Festschrift in Honor of E. Thomas Lawson.

Prepared in honor of E. Thomas Lawson, the essays in Religion as a Human Capacity represent diverse points of view in the study of religion today. Part I, "Theoretical Studies," offers a broad range of cognitivist theoretical explorations, while Part II, "Studies in Religious Behavior...

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Main Author: Timothy Light; Brian C. Wilson (Editors)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2004.

Series: Numen Book Series 99.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

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Religion.

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Call Number: BL50 .R426365 2004

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Timothy Light and Brian C. Wilson
  • A Brief Intellectual Biography of E. Thomas Lawson /
  • Brian C. Wilson
  • Religion as a Human Capacity /
  • Timothy Light
  • Out Of Africa: Lessons From a By-product of Evolution /
  • Pascal Boyer
  • Is Religion a Rube Goldberg Device? Or Oh, What a Difference a Theory Makes! /
  • Robert N. Mccauley
  • Why Do We Need Cognitive Theories of Religion? /
  • Harvey Whitehouse
  • Can Science Fabricate Meaning? On Ritual, Religion, and the Academic Study of Religion /
  • Donald Wiebe
  • Pathways to Knowledge in Comparative Religion: Clearing Ground for New Conceptual Resources /
  • Veikko Anttonen
  • Comparative Religion in the State of Nature /
  • William E. Paden
  • Toward a Discourse Between Cognitive and Critical Theoreticians of Religion: Open Dialectic Between the Religious and the Secular /
  • Rudolf J. Siebert
  • Dispatches from the "Religion" Wars /
  • Russell T. Mccutcheon
  • Exploring Theories of Religious Violence: Nigeria's "Maitatsine" Phenomenon /
  • Rosalind I. J. Hackett
  • What Does Jerusalem Have to Do with Amecameca? A Case Study of Colonial Mexican Sacred Space /
  • Brian C. Wilson
  • Different Vibes: Rethinking Religion, Yet Again /
  • Francis L. Gross
  • Ritual Competence and Mithraic Ritual /
  • Luther H. Martin
  • Bringing Data to Mind: Empirical Claims of Lawson and McCauley's Theory of Religious Ritual /
  • Justin L. Barrett
  • Communities, Ritual Violence, and Cognition: On Hopi Indian Initiations /
  • Armin W. Geertz
  • On Credulity /
  • Benson Saler
  • What is the "Bible"? (Analysis of a Text Concept) /
  • Brian Malley
  • Luck Beliefs: A Case of Theological Incorrectness /
  • Jason Slone
  • Cognition and Credence /
  • Timothy Light
  • Bibliography /
  • Timothy Light and Brian C. Wilson
  • Index of Names /
  • Timothy Light and Brian C. Wilson
  • Index of Subjects /
  • Timothy Light and Brian C. Wilson
  • Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series /
  • Timothy Light and Brian C. Wilson.