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Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis. Festschrift in Honour of Armin W. Geertz

By Luther H. Martin , Jeppe Sinding Jensen , Anders Klostergaard Petersen , Gilhus Ingvild Sælid , Jesper Sørensen

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2018
ISBN
9789004385375, 9789004385108
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11424525 bytes)
Series
Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, Band: 13
Pages
0\702
Topic
Religion
Time added
2018-11-29 19:37:01
cognitioncultureEvolutionFestschriftHistoryPhilosophyReligionReligious StudiesSciencesocial science

Description

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 increasing acknowledgement in the natural and social sciences of culture’s and religion’s evolutionary importance calls for a novel epistemological and theoretical framework for studying these two areas. The chapters explore how a new scholarly synthesis, founded on the triadic space constituted by evolution, cognition, cultural and ecological environment, may develop. Different perspectives and themes relating to this overarching topic are taken up with a main focus on either evolution, cognition, and/or the history of religion.

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