Religion, emergence, and the origins of meaning : : beyond Durkheim and Rappaport / / by Paul Cassell.
Why is religion so important to individuals and societies? What gives religion its profound meaningfulness and longevity? Enhancing perspectives taken from sociology and ritual theory, Religion, Emergence, and the Origins of Meaning describes how ‘emergence theory’ – developed to make sense of life...
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| Superior document: | Philosophical Studies in Science and Religion, Volume 5 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Philosophical studies in science and religion ;
Volume 5. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (203 p.) |
| Notes: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Boston University, 2012. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Religion as an Emergent Phenomenon
- Rappaport, Revisited
- Emergence and Semiotics – a Primer
- Religion’s Emergent Characteristics
- David Sloan Wilson and Daniel Dennett – Religion without Meaning
- Émile Durkheim and the Emergence of Meaningful Social Agency
- Varieties of Religious Meaning
- Appendix: Confucianism as a Test Case
- Works Cited
- Index.