Theorizing Religions Past

Archaeology, History, and Cognition
Herausgeber: Martin, Luther H.; Whitehouse, Harvey

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Historians bound by their singular stories and archaeologists bound by their material evidence don't typically seek out broad comparative theories of religion. But recently Harvey Whitehouse's "modes of religiosity" theory has been attracting many scholars of past religions. Based upon universal features of human cognition, Whitehouse's theory can provide useful comparisons across cultures and historical periods even when limited cultural data is present. In this groundbreaking volume, scholars of cultures from prehistorical hunter-gatherers to 19th century Scandinavian Lutherans evaluate Whitehouse's hypothesis that all religions tend toward either an imagistic or a doctrinal mode depending on how they are remembered and transmitted. Theorizing Religions Past provides valuable insights for all historians of religion and especially for those interested in a new cognitive method for studying the past.

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Produktdetails

• Cognitive Science of Religion
• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 385g
• ISBN-13: 9780759106215
• ISBN-10: 0759106215
• Artikelnr.: 21249404

Autorenporträt

Edited by Harvey Whitehouse and Luther H. Martin - Contributions by Harvey Whitehouse, Luther Martin; E Thomas Lawson; Luther Martin; Stephen Mithen; Karen Johnson; Douglas L. Gragg; Roger Beck; Anita Leopold; Anne Clark; Theodore Vial; Ulrich Berner; Ilk

Inhaltsangabe

1 Preface 2 The Wedding of Psychology, Ethnography & History:
Methodological Bigamy or Tripartite Free Love? 3 Toward a Scientific
History of Religions Part 4 The Archaeological Evidence 5 From Ohalo to
Çatalhöyük: The Development of Religiosity During the Early Prehistory of
Western Asia, 20,000-7,000 BC 6 No Need to Write this Down: Primary
Emergence of the Doctrinal Mode in the Fifth and Fourth Millenia in
Southwestern Iran 7 Graeco-Roman Antiquity 8 Old and New in Roman Religion:
A Cognitive Account 9 Four Men, Two Sticks, and a Whip: Image and Doctrine
in Mithraic Ritual 10 Syncretism and the Interaction of Modes of
Religiosity: A Formative Perspective in "Gnostic Christian" Movements in
Late Antiquity 11 Christian Traditions 12 Testing the Two Modes: Some
Observations about Medieval Christianity 13 Modes of Religiosity and
Changes in Popular Religious Practices at the Time of the Reformation 14
Modes of Religiosity and Types of Conversion in Medieval Europe and Modern
Africa 15 Corrupt Doctrine and Doctrinal Revival: On the Nature and Limits
of the Modes Theory 16 Critical Discussion 17 Critical Reflections on the
"Modes of Religiosity" Argument 18 Theorizing Religions Past