ISBN:
3110218666
,
9783110218664
Language:
English
Pages:
245 S.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Religion and Reason 48
Series Statement:
Religion and reason
Parallel Title:
Print version Understanding Religion : Selected Essays
Keywords:
Religion Ethnography
;
Belief
;
Evolution
;
Cognition
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This volume consists of 12 essays published by the author between the years 1997-2007, a thirteenth paper read at a conference in 2006, and a long introduction prepared specifically for the collection. All of the essays deal with epistemological issues attendant on conceptualizing and defining religion, understanding what is likely to be involved in studying and discussing beliefs, and attempting to explain religion and religions by drawing on the contemporary cognitive and evolutionary sciences
Description / Table of Contents:
Frontmatter; Contents; Introduction; The Ethnographer as Pontifex; E. B. Tylor and the Anthropology of Religion; Culture in Phylogenetic Perspective: An Appreciation of the Contributions of A. I. Hallowell; On What We May Believe About Beliefs; Finding Wayú Religion; On Credulity; Secondary Beliefs and the Alien Abduction Phenomenon; Family Resemblance and the Definition of Religion; Conceptualizing Religion: The Matter of Boundaries; Comparison: Some Suggestions for Improving the Inevitable; Biology and Religion: On Establishing a Problematic
Description / Table of Contents:
Toward a Realistic and Relevant „Science of Religion"Backmatter;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat reader.
DOI:
10.1515/9783110218664
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