Evolution, cognition, and the history of religion: festschrift in honour of Armin W. Geertz

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface. A Call for a New Synthesis -- Part 1: The Evolution, Cognition and History of Armin W. Geertz -- Chapter 1. Armin W. Geertz: A Genuine PhD (Puritan, Hippie, and Doctor) - A Man and His Mission -- Part 2: Evolution -- Chapter 2...

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Contributors: Klostergaard Petersen, Anders 1969- (Editor) ; Gilhus, Ingvild Sælid 1951- (Editor) ; Martin, Luther H. 1937- (Editor) ; Jensen, Jeppe Sinding 1951- (Editor) ; Sørensen, Jesper 1968- (Editor) ; Geertz, Armin W. 1948- (Honoree)
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Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill 2018
In:Year: 2018
Series/Journal:Supplements to method and theory in the study of religion 13
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Religion / Evolution / Cognition / Methodology
Further subjects:B Geertz, Armin W. 1948-
B Festschrift
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Print version: Petersen, Anders Klostergaard: Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: a New Synthesis. - Boston : BRILL,c2018. - 9789004385108
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Summary:Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface. A Call for a New Synthesis -- Part 1: The Evolution, Cognition and History of Armin W. Geertz -- Chapter 1. Armin W. Geertz: A Genuine PhD (Puritan, Hippie, and Doctor) - A Man and His Mission -- Part 2: Evolution -- Chapter 2. Why Cultural Evolutionary Models of Religion Need a Systemic Approach -- Chapter 3. The New Collaborative Scientific Study of Religious History -- Chapter 4. Continuity as a Core Concept for a Renewed Scientific Study of Religion -- Chapter 5. Behaviors and Environments: Patterns of Religious World Habitation -- Chapter 6. ``Where is the Future for the Study of Religion?'' On Consilience, Anomalous Monism and a Biocultural Theory of Religion -- Chapter 7. An Old Methodenstreit Made New: Rejecting a `Science-Lite' Study of Religion -- Chapter 8. Making Evolutionary Science of Religion an Integral Part of Cognitive Science of Religion -- Chapter 9. Self-Programming and the Self-Domestication of the Human Species: Are We Approaching a Fourth Transition? -- Chapter 10. The Evolutionary Loop: Archaic Trends in Modern Time -- Chapter 11. Religion as an Artifact of Selection Pressures to Make Hominins More Social -- Chapter 12. The Origin of Religion: Recent Scientific Findings -- Chapter 13. The Meaning of Ritual: Or What a Philosophy of Religion Should Take Into Account -- Chapter 14. Mind the Text: Traces of Mental States in Unstructured Historical Data -- Part 3: Cognition -- Chapter 15. Bridging the Gap: the Cognitive Science of Religion as an Integrative Approach -- Chapter 16. Causality, Deconstruction, and an Unsettling Possibility -- Chapter 17. Politics of Nostalgia, Logical Fallacies, and Cognitive Biases: the Importance of Epistemology in the Age of Cognitive Historiography -- Chapter 18. Scientific Worldview Studies: A Programmatic Proposal
Chapter 19. Dualism, Disembodiment and the Divine: Supernatural Agent Representations in CSR -- Chapter 20. Uncertainties of Religious Belief -- Chapter 21. Ideology, Prophecy and Prediction: Cognitive Mechanisms of the `Really Real' -- Chapter 22. Experimenting with Cognitive Historiography -- Chapter 23. Predictive Coding in the Study of Religion: a Believer's Testimony -- Chapter 24. Neuroanthropology: Exploring Relations between Brain, Cognition, and Culture -- Chapter 25. Dis:order. Cognition Explored through a Different Lens -- Chapter 26. Why is a Science of the Sociocultural so Difficult? -- Chapter 27. History in Science -- Part 4: History of Religion -- Chapter 28. Believing in Oracles -- Chapter 29. A Feeling for the Future: Ancient Greek Divination and Embodied Cognition -- Chapter 30. Amazons East and West: A Real-Life Experiment in Social Cognition -- Chapter 31. From the Deer Hunter to Creation Theology: Animism and Analogism in Genesis -- Chapter 32. ``Waves of Emotion'' in Apuleius' Metamorphoses, Book XI: An Approach according to Cognitive Historiography -- Chapter 33. A Biocultural Approach to Aelius Aristides' Sacred Tales -- Chapter 34. Light from the Cave: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a History of Religions Example -- Chapter 35. Memory, Narrative, and the History of Religion -- Chapter 36. Enclothed Cognition and Ancient Monasticism -- Chapter 37. Columbian Mammoth and Ancient Bison: Paleoindian Petroglyphs along the San Juan River near Bluff, Utah, USA -- Chapter 38. Cosmetic Alterations: Religion and the Emergence of Behavioural Modernity -- Chapter 39. Who Is Indian? Some Reflections on Indigeneity in the Study of Contemporary Religion -- Chapter 40. Interspecies Phylogenesis in Borneo's Rainforest Avian Divination among the Eastern Penan: On the Bio-Religious Insertion of Animal Realities into Human Conditions
Chapter 41. A Hermeneutics of Orality: Methodology for the Study of Orally Transmitted Religious Traditions -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
ISBN:9004385371
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/9789004385375