Conversations and controversies in the scientific study of religion : : collaborative and co-authored essays by Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe / / edited by Luther H. Martin, Donald Wiebe.
Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe together have spent the better part of a century exploring possibilities for a scientific study of religion. The following essays are a record of their conversations together and of their conversations and controversies with a number of leading scholars in religious...
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| Superior document: | Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, Volume 5 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Supplements to Method & theory in the study of religion ;
Volume 5. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (361 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe
- Introduction / Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe
- A Rationale for a Change of Name for the International Association for the History of Religions / Donald Wiebe and Luther H. Martin
- The Study of Religion in its Social-Scientific Context: A Perspective on the 1989 Warsaw Conference on Methodology / E.Thomas Lawson , Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe
- On Declaring war: A Critical Comment / Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe
- On Making Peace: A Critical Reply to Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe / Ursula King
- On Declaring Peace: Another Critical Comment / Ninian Smart
- Establishing a Beachhead: naasr, Twenty Years Later / Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe
- Pseudo-Speciation of the Human Race: Religions as Hazard-Precaution Systems / Donald Wiebe
- The Ecology of Threat Detection and Precautionary Response from the Perspectives of Evolutionary Psychology, Cognitive Science and Historiography: The Case of the Roman Cults of Mithras / Luther H. Martin
- Religion, Fear, and Disgust: A Comment on Martin and Wiebe / Ilkka Pyysiäinen
- The Prospects and Pitfalls of ‘Just-So’ Storytelling in Evolutionary Accounts of Religion / Gabriel Levy
- Response to Donald Wiebe, “Religions as Hazard-Precaution Systems,” and Luther Martin, “The Ecology of Threat Detection and Precautionary Response”: Trying to Explain Religion (Again) / Lluis Oviedo
- Why Is Religion Characterized by Excess and Non-Functionality? / Uffe Schjoedt
- The Scientific Study of Religion: Two Case Studies, One Response / Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe
- Pro- and Assortative-Sociality in the Formation and Maintenance of Religious Groups / Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe
- Beyond “Prosocial” / Luke W. Galen
- No Global Kumbayah Implied: Religious Prosociality as an Inherently Parochial Phenomenon / Erik M. Lund , Maxine B. Najle , Ben K.L. Ng and Will M. Gervais
- On the Dark Side of Religion and Other Forms of Impression Management / Benjamin Grant Purzycki
- Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing / Matt J. Rossano
- Selective Reading and Selectionist Thinking: Why Violence Has Been, and Should Be, Important to the Cognitive Science of Religion / John H. Shaver and Richard Sosis
- Religion, Prosociality, Assortative Sociality, and the Evolution of Large-Scale Cooperation: A Few Remarks on Martin and Wiebe / Paulo Sousa and Karolina Prochownik
- Religious Prosociality, Experimental and Historical Conundrums: Continuing the Conversation / Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe
- Milestone or Millstone? Does the Book Live Up to the Hype? / Donald Wiebe
- Great Expectations for Ara Norenzayan’s Big Gods / Luther H. Martin
- Religious Studies as a Scientific Discipline: The Persistence of a Delusion / Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe
- Editor’s Introduction to the Discussion / David Zbíral
- Is an Unbiased Science of Religion Impossible? / Hans Gerald Hödl
- The Study of Religion as a Scientific Discipline: A Comment on Luther Martin and Donald Wiebe’s Paper / Hubert Seiwart
- A Scientific Discipline: The Persistence of a Delusion? / Radek Kundt
- Rethinking the Relationship between the Study of Religions, Theology and Religious Concerns: A Response to Some Aspects of Wiebe’s and Martin’s Paper / Tomáš Bubík.