Religion as a human capacity : a festschrift in honor of E. Thomas Lawson / / edited by Timothy Light and Brian C. Wilson.
Prepared in honor of E. Thomas Lawson, the essays in Religion as a Human Capacity represent diverse points of view in the study of religion today. Part I, “Theoretical Studies,” offers a broad range of cognitivist theoretical explorations, while Part II, “Studies in Religious Behavior,” presents cut...
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| Superior document: | Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions ; v. 99 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in the history of religions ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (479 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Timothy Light and Brian C. Wilson
- A Brief Intellectual Biography of E. Thomas Lawson / Brian C. Wilson
- Religion as a Human Capacity / Timothy Light
- Out Of Africa: Lessons From a By-product of Evolution / Pascal Boyer
- Is Religion a Rube Goldberg Device? Or Oh, What a Difference a Theory Makes! / Robert N. Mccauley
- Why Do We Need Cognitive Theories of Religion? / Harvey Whitehouse
- Can Science Fabricate Meaning? On Ritual, Religion, and the Academic Study of Religion / Donald Wiebe
- Pathways to Knowledge in Comparative Religion: Clearing Ground for New Conceptual Resources / Veikko Anttonen
- Comparative Religion in the State of Nature / William E. Paden
- Toward a Discourse Between Cognitive and Critical Theoreticians of Religion: Open Dialectic Between the Religious and the Secular / Rudolf J. Siebert
- Dispatches from the “Religion” Wars / Russell T. Mccutcheon
- Exploring Theories of Religious Violence: Nigeria’s “Maitatsine” Phenomenon / Rosalind I. J. Hackett
- What Does Jerusalem Have to Do with Amecameca? A Case Study of Colonial Mexican Sacred Space / Brian C. Wilson
- Different Vibes: Rethinking Religion, Yet Again / Francis L. Gross
- Ritual Competence and Mithraic Ritual / Luther H. Martin
- Bringing Data to Mind: Empirical Claims of Lawson and McCauley’s Theory of Religious Ritual / Justin L. Barrett
- Communities, Ritual Violence, and Cognition: On Hopi Indian Initiations / Armin W. Geertz
- On Credulity / Benson Saler
- What is the “Bible”? (Analysis of a Text Concept) / Brian Malley
- Luck Beliefs: A Case of Theological Incorrectness / Jason Slone
- Cognition and Credence / Timothy Light
- Bibliography / Timothy Light and Brian C. Wilson
- Index of Names / Timothy Light and Brian C. Wilson
- Index of Subjects / Timothy Light and Brian C. Wilson
- Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series / Timothy Light and Brian C. Wilson.