Mental Culture (eBook, PDF)

Classical Social Theory and the Cognitive Science of Religion
Redaktion: Xygalatas, Dimitris; McCorkle, William

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Produktbeschreibung

Why is the set of human beliefs and behaviours that we call "religion" such a widespread feature of all known human societies, past and present, and why are there so many forms of religiosity found throughout history and culture? "Mental Culture" brings together an international range of scholars to answer these questions

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317546092
• Artikelnr.: 44873866

Autorenporträt

Dimitris Xygalatas is Director of the Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion in Brno, Czech Republic and holds a joint position with Aarhus University, Denmark, and Masaryk University, Czech Republic. He is author of The Burning Saints: Cognition and Culture in the Fire-walking Rituals of the Anastenaria and Managing Editor of the Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion. William W. McCorkle Jr. is Director of Experimental Research at the Laboratory for Experimental Research of Religion and Associate Professor in the Department for the Study of Religions at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. He is author of Ritualizing the Disposal of the Deceased: From Corpse to Concept.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Social Minds, Mental Cultures: Weaving Together Cognition
and Culture in the Study of Religion, Dimitris Xygalatas and William W.
McCorkle Jr. 2. Explanatory Pluralism and the Cognitive Science of
Religion: Why Scholars in Religious Studies Should Stop Worrying about
Reductionism, Robert McCauley 3. Early Cognitive Theorists of Religion:
Robin Horton and his Predecessors, Stewart Guthrie 4. The Opium or the
Aphrodisiac of the People? Darwinizing Marx on Religion, Jason slone 5.
Immortality, Creation, and Regulation: Updating Durkheim's Theory of the
Sacred, Harvey Whitehouse 6. Non-ordinary Powers: Charisma, Special
Affordances, and the Study of Religion, Ann Taves 7. Malinowski's Magic and
Skinner's Superstition: Reconciling Explanations of Magical Practicies,
Konrad Talmont-Kaminski 8. Toward an Evolutionary Cognitive Science of
Mental Cultures: Lessons from Freud, Joseph Bulbulia 9. Piaget on Moral
Judgement: Towards a Reconciliation with Nativist and Socio-Cultural
Approaches, Gordon Ingram 10. Building on William James: The Role of
Learning in Religious Experience, Tanya M. Luhrmann 11. Explaining
Religious Concepts: Levi-Strauss The Brilliant and Problematic Ancestor,
Pascal Boyer 12. The Meaningful Brain: Clifford Geertz and the Cognitive
Science of Culture, Armin W. Geertz 13. Cognitive Science and Religious
Thought: The Case of Psychological Interiority in the Analects, Edward
Slingerland 14. Conclusion: Moving Towards a New Science of Religion. Or,
Have We Already Arrived? Luther H. Martin and Ilkka Pyysiainen