Evolution, cognition, and the history of religion : a new synthesis : festschrift in honour of Armin W. Geertz /

Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis comprises 41 chapters that push for a new way of conducting the study of religion, thereby, transforming the discipline into a genuine science of religion. The recent resurgence of evolutionary approaches on culture and the increasin...

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Other Authors: Geertz, Armin W., 1948- (honouree.), Petersen, Anders Klostergaard (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.

Series: Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 13.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353350.

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Call Number: BL41 .E89 2019

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Anders Klostergaard Petersen , Ingvild Sælid Gilhus , Luther H. Martin , Jeppe Sinding Jensen and Jesper Sørensen
  • A Call for a New Synthesis /
  • Anders Klostergaard Petersen , Luther H. Martin , Jeppe Sinding Jensen , Ingvild Sælid Gilhus and Jesper Sørensen
  • Armin W. Geertz: A Genuine PhD (Puritan, Hippie, and Doctor) - A Man and His Mission /
  • Anders Klostergaard Petersen and Tim Jensen
  • Why Cultural Evolutionary Models of Religion Need a Systemic Approach /
  • Richard Sosis
  • The New Collaborative Scientific Study of Religious History /
  • Joseph Watts , Russell Gray and Joseph Bulbulia
  • Continuity as a Core Concept for a Renewed Scientific Study of Religion /
  • Anders Klostergaard Petersen
  • Behaviors and Environments: Patterns of Religious World Habitation /
  • William E. Paden
  • "Where is the Future for the Study of Religion?" On Consilience, Anomalous Monism and a Biocultural Theory of Religion /
  • Jeppe Sinding Jensen
  • An Old Methodenstreit Made New: Rejecting a 'Science-Lite' Study of Religion /
  • Donald Wiebe
  • Making Evolutionary Science of Religion an Integral Part of Cognitive Science of Religion /
  • Radek Kundt
  • Self-Programming and the Self-Domestication of the Human Species: Are We Approaching a Fourth Transition? /
  • Merlin Donald
  • The Evolutionary Loop: Archaic Trends in Modern Time /
  • Marianne C. Qvortrup Fibiger
  • Religion as an Artifact of Selection Pressures to Make Hominins More Social /
  • Jonathan H. Turner
  • The Origin of Religion: Recent Scientific Findings /
  • Alexandra Maryanski
  • The Meaning of Ritual: Or What a Philosophy of Religion Should Take Into Account /
  • Lars Albinus
  • Mind the Text: Traces of Mental States in Unstructured Historical Data /
  • Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo
  • Bridging the Gap: the Cognitive Science of Religion as an Integrative Approach /
  • Dimitris Xygalatas
  • Causality, Deconstruction, and an Unsettling Possibility /
  • Benson Saler
  • Politics of Nostalgia, Logical Fallacies, and Cognitive Biases: the Importance of Epistemology in the Age of Cognitive Historiography /
  • Leonardo Ambasciano
  • Scientific Worldview Studies: A Programmatic Proposal /
  • Ann Taves and Egil Asprem
  • Dualism, Disembodiment and the Divine: Supernatural Agent Representations in CSR /
  • K. Mitch Hodge and Paulo Sousa
  • Uncertainties of Religious Belief /
  • Pascal Boyer
  • Ideology, Prophecy and Prediction: Cognitive Mechanisms of the 'Really Real' /
  • Jesper Sørensen
  • Experimenting with Cognitive Historiography /
  • Eva Kundtová Klocová
  • Predictive Coding in the Study of Religion: a Believer's Testimony /
  • Uffe Schjødt
  • Neuroanthropology: Exploring Relations between Brain, Cognition, and Culture /
  • Quinton Deeley
  • Dis:order. Cognition Explored through a Different Lens /
  • Ingela Visuri
  • Why is a Science of the Sociocultural so Difficult? /
  • Harvey Whitehouse
  • History in Science /
  • E. Thomas Lawson
  • Believing in Oracles /
  • Hugh Bowden
  • A Feeling for the Future: Ancient Greek Divination and Embodied Cognition /
  • Esther Eidinow
  • Amazons East and West: A Real-Life Experiment in Social Cognition /
  • Yulia Ustinova
  • From the Deer Hunter to Creation Theology: Animism and Analogism in Genesis /
  • Hans Jørgen Lundager Jensen.