Lance Grande

The Evolution of Religions

A History of Related Traditions

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Produktbeschreibung

This extraordinarily ambitious and comprehensive book demonstrates how evolutionary theory can yield new insight into the development of organized religion. Lance Grande examines the growth and diversification of hundreds of religions over time, highlighting their historical interrelationships.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 187mm x 262mm x 44mm
• Gewicht: 2050g
• ISBN-13: 9780231212304
• ISBN-10: 0231212305
• Artikelnr.: 69073686

Autorenporträt

Lance Grande

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: A Modern Evolutionary Approach to History of Religion Studies
Introductory Section: Applying Evolutionary Theory and Philosophy to
Aspects of Human Culture
1. Religions, Classification, and Phylogenetic Pattern
2. Explaining Hypothetical Patterns with Evolutionary Process Theory
Main Section: The Historical Diversification (Evolution) of Religions
3. Early Supernaturalism and the Development of Organized Religion
4. Indigenous Eastern Organized Religion and Asian Cyclicism
5. Afro-Euro-Mediterranean Organized Religion, Beginning with Old World
Hard Polytheism
6. Linear Monotheism
7. The Early Diversification of Abrahamic Monotheism
8. Traditional Christianity
9. Reformation Christianity
10. Biblical Demiurgism: A Subgroup of "Gnosticism"
11. Islam
Summary Section: Four Historical Trends in the Evolution of Religions and
Considerations for the Future of Humanity
12. Organized Religions and the Evolution of Human Society
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Select Terms
Notes
Chapter Citations
References
Figure Credits
Subject Index