Evolution, cognition, and the history of religion : : a new synthesis : festschrift in honour of Armin W. Geertz / / edited by Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Ingvild Saelid Gilhus, Luther H. Martin, Jeppe Sinding Jensen, Jesp

• TeilnehmendeR: Geertz, Armin W., 1948-; Petersen, Anders Klostergaard,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (702 pages).
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; A Call for a New Synthesis /; Armin W. Geertz: A Genuine PhD (Puritan, Hippie, and Doctor) – A Man and His Mission /; Why Cultural Evolutionary Models of Religion Need a Systemic Approach /; The New Collaborative Scientific Study of Religious History /; Continuity as a Core Concept for a Renewed Scientific Study of Religion /; Behaviors and Environments: Patterns of Religious World Habitation /; “Where is the Future for the Study of Religion?” On Consilience, Anomalous Monism and a Biocultural Theory of Religion /; An Old Methodenstreit Made New: Rejecting a ‘Science-Lite’ Study of Religion /; Making Evolutionary Science of Religion an Integral Part of Cognitive Science of Religion /; Self-Programming and the Self-Domestication of the Human Species: Are We Approaching a Fourth Transition? /; The Evolutionary Loop: Archaic Trends in Modern Time /; Religion as an Artifact of Selection Pressures to Make Hominins More Social /; The Origin of Religion: Recent Scientific Findings /; The Meaning of Ritual: Or What a Philosophy of Religion Should Take Into Account /; Mind the Text: Traces of Mental States in Unstructured Historical Data /; Bridging the Gap: the Cognitive Science of Religion as an Integrative Approach /; Causality, Deconstruction, and an Unsettling Possibility /; Politics of Nostalgia, Logical Fallacies, and Cognitive Biases: the Importance of Epistemology in the Age of Cognitive Historiography /; Scientific Worldview Studies: A Programmatic Proposal /; Dualism, Disembodiment and the Divine: Supernatural Agent Representations in CSR /; Uncertainties of Religious Belief /; Ideology, Prophecy and Prediction: Cognitive Mechanisms of the ‘Really Real’ /; Experimenting with Cognitive Historiography /; Predictive Coding in the Study of Religion: a Believer’s Testimony /; Neuroanthropology: Exploring Relations between Brain, Cognition, and Culture /; Dis:order. Cognition Explored through a Different Lens /; Why is a Science of the Sociocultural so Difficult? /; History in Science /; Believing in Oracles /; A Feeling for the Future: Ancient Greek Divination and Embodied Cognition /; Amazons East and West: A Real-Life Experiment in Social Cognition /; From the Deer Hunter to Creation Theology: Animism and Analogism in Genesis /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004385371
• ISSN: 2214-3270
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Ingvild Saelid Gilhus, Luther H. Martin, Jeppe Sinding Jensen, Jesp

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.