Primates and Religion: A Biological Anthropologist's Response to J. Wentzel Van Huyssteen's Alone in the World?
Abstract. For a biological anthropologist interested in the prehistory of religion, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen's book is welcome and resonant. Van Huyssteen's central thesis is that humans' capacity for spirituality emerges from a transformation of cognition and emotions that takes plac...
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Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
Язык: | Английский |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2008
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Zygon
Год: 2008, Том: 43, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 451-466 |
Другие ключевые слова: | B
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B hominids B Религия B Primates B Ритуал (мотив) B Emotion B Эволюция |
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Итог: | Abstract. For a biological anthropologist interested in the prehistory of religion, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen's book is welcome and resonant. Van Huyssteen's central thesis is that humans' capacity for spirituality emerges from a transformation of cognition and emotions that takes place in the symbolic realm, within Homo sapiens and apart from biology. To his thesis I bring to bear three areas of response: the abundant cognitive and emotional capacities of living apes and extinct hominids; the role of symbolic ritual in the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens; and the closely intertwined nature of biology and culture in the workings of evolutionary change. |
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ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2008.00927.x |