Conversations and controversies in the scientific study of religion : collaborative and co-authored essays /

Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe together have spent the better part of a century exploring possibilities for a scientific study of religion. The following essays are a record of their conversations together and of their conversations and controversies with a number of leading scholars in religious...

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Other Authors: Martin, Luther H., 1937-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2016.

Series: Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 05.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303942.

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Call Number: BL50

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe
  • Introduction /
  • Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe
  • A Rationale for a Change of Name for the International Association for the History of Religions /
  • Donald Wiebe and Luther H. Martin
  • The Study of Religion in its Social-Scientific Context: A Perspective on the 1989 Warsaw Conference on Methodology /
  • E.Thomas Lawson , Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe
  • On Declaring war: A Critical Comment /
  • Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe
  • On Making Peace: A Critical Reply to Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe /
  • Ursula King
  • On Declaring Peace: Another Critical Comment /
  • Ninian Smart
  • Establishing a Beachhead: naasr, Twenty Years Later /
  • Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe
  • Pseudo-Speciation of the Human Race: Religions as Hazard-Precaution Systems /
  • Donald Wiebe
  • The Ecology of Threat Detection and Precautionary Response from the Perspectives of Evolutionary Psychology, Cognitive Science and Historiography: The Case of the Roman Cults of Mithras /
  • Luther H. Martin
  • Religion, Fear, and Disgust: A Comment on Martin and Wiebe /
  • Ilkka Pyysiäinen
  • The Prospects and Pitfalls of 'Just-So' Storytelling in Evolutionary Accounts of Religion /
  • Gabriel Levy
  • Response to Donald Wiebe, "Religions as Hazard-Precaution Systems," and Luther Martin, "The Ecology of Threat Detection and Precautionary Response": Trying to Explain Religion (Again) /
  • Lluis Oviedo
  • Why Is Religion Characterized by Excess and Non-Functionality? /
  • Uffe Schjoedt
  • The Scientific Study of Religion: Two Case Studies, One Response /
  • Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe
  • Pro- and Assortative-Sociality in the Formation and Maintenance of Religious Groups /
  • Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe
  • Beyond "Prosocial" /
  • Luke W. Galen
  • No Global Kumbayah Implied: Religious Prosociality as an Inherently Parochial Phenomenon /
  • Erik M. Lund , Maxine B. Najle , Ben K.L. Ng and Will M. Gervais
  • On the Dark Side of Religion and Other Forms of Impression Management /
  • Benjamin Grant Purzycki
  • Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing /
  • Matt J. Rossano
  • Selective Reading and Selectionist Thinking: Why Violence Has Been, and Should Be, Important to the Cognitive Science of Religion /
  • John H. Shaver and Richard Sosis
  • Religion, Prosociality, Assortative Sociality, and the Evolution of Large-Scale Cooperation: A Few Remarks on Martin and Wiebe /
  • Paulo Sousa and Karolina Prochownik
  • Religious Prosociality, Experimental and Historical Conundrums: Continuing the Conversation /
  • Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe
  • Milestone or Millstone? Does the Book Live Up to the Hype? /
  • Donald Wiebe
  • Great Expectations for Ara Norenzayan's Big Gods /
  • Luther H. Martin
  • Religious Studies as a Scientific Discipline: The Persistence of a Delusion /
  • Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe
  • Editor's Introduction to the Discussion /
  • David Zbíral
  • Is an Unbiased Science of Religion Impossible? /
  • Hans Gerald Hödl
  • The Study of Religion as a Scientific Discipline: A Comment on Luther Martin and Donald Wiebe's Paper /
  • Hubert Seiwart
  • A Scientific Discipline: The Persistence of a Delusion? /
  • Radek Kundt
  • Rethinking the Relationship between the Study of Religions, Theology and Religious Concerns: A Response to Some Aspects of Wiebe's and Martin's Paper /
  • Tomáš Bubík.