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).

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Anders Klostergaard Petersen , Ingvild Sælid Gilhus , Luther H. Martin , Jeppe Sinding Jensen and Jesper Sørensen -- A Call for a New Synthesis / Anders Klostergaard Petersen , Luther H. Martin , Jeppe Sinding Jensen , Ingvild Sælid Gilhus and Jesper Sørensen -- Armin W. Geertz: A Genuine PhD (Puritan, Hippie, and Doctor) – A Man and His Mission / Anders Klostergaard Petersen and Tim Jensen -- Why Cultural Evolutionary Models of Religion Need a Systemic Approach / Richard Sosis -- The New Collaborative Scientific Study of Religious History / Joseph Watts , Russell Gray and Joseph Bulbulia -- Continuity as a Core Concept for a Renewed Scientific Study of Religion / Anders Klostergaard Petersen -- Behaviors and Environments: Patterns of Religious World Habitation / William E. Paden -- “Where is the Future for the Study of Religion?” On Consilience, Anomalous Monism and a Biocultural Theory of Religion / Jeppe Sinding Jensen -- An Old Methodenstreit Made New: Rejecting a ‘Science-Lite’ Study of Religion / Donald Wiebe -- Making Evolutionary Science of Religion an Integral Part of Cognitive Science of Religion / Radek Kundt -- Self-Programming and the Self-Domestication of the Human Species: Are We Approaching a Fourth Transition? / Merlin Donald -- The Evolutionary Loop: Archaic Trends in Modern Time / Marianne C. Qvortrup Fibiger -- Religion as an Artifact of Selection Pressures to Make Hominins More Social / Jonathan H. Turner -- The Origin of Religion: Recent Scientific Findings / Alexandra Maryanski -- The Meaning of Ritual: Or What a Philosophy of Religion Should Take Into Account / Lars Albinus -- Mind the Text: Traces of Mental States in Unstructured Historical Data / Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo -- Bridging the Gap: the Cognitive Science of Religion as an Integrative Approach / Dimitris Xygalatas -- Causality, Deconstruction, and an Unsettling Possibility / Benson Saler -- Politics of Nostalgia, Logical Fallacies, and Cognitive Biases: the Importance of Epistemology in the Age of Cognitive Historiography / Leonardo Ambasciano -- Scientific Worldview Studies: A Programmatic Proposal / Ann Taves and Egil Asprem -- Dualism, Disembodiment and the Divine: Supernatural Agent Representations in CSR / K. Mitch Hodge and Paulo Sousa -- Uncertainties of Religious Belief / Pascal Boyer -- Ideology, Prophecy and Prediction: Cognitive Mechanisms of the ‘Really Real’ / Jesper Sørensen -- Experimenting with Cognitive Historiography / Eva Kundtová Klocová -- Predictive Coding in the Study of Religion: a Believer’s Testimony / Uffe Schjødt -- Neuroanthropology: Exploring Relations between Brain, Cognition, and Culture / Quinton Deeley -- Dis:order. Cognition Explored through a Different Lens / Ingela Visuri -- Why is a Science of the Sociocultural so Difficult? / Harvey Whitehouse -- History in Science / E. Thomas Lawson -- Believing in Oracles / Hugh Bowden -- A Feeling for the Future: Ancient Greek Divination and Embodied Cognition / Esther Eidinow -- Amazons East and West: A Real-Life Experiment in Social Cognition / Yulia Ustinova -- From the Deer Hunter to Creation Theology: Animism and Analogism in Genesis / Hans Jørgen Lundager Jensen.