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

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 increasin...

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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).
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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.