Religion Emergence And The Origins Of Meaning

Author : Paul Cassell
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004293760
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, Emergence, and the Origins of Meaning written by Paul Cassell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is religion so important to individuals and societies? What gives religion its profound meaningfulness and longevity? Enhancing perspectives taken from sociology and ritual theory, Religion, Emergence, and the Origins of Meaning describes how ‘emergence theory’ – developed to make sense of life and mind – explains why religious communities are special when compared to ordinary human social groups. Paul Cassell argues that in religious ritual, beliefs concerning unseen divine agencies are made uniquely potent, inviting and guiding powerful, alternative experiences, and giving religious groups a form of organization distinct from ordinary human social groups. Going beyond the foundational descriptions of Émile Durkheim and Roy Rappaport, Cassell utilizes the best of 21st century emergence theory to characterize religion’s emergent dynamics.

Author : Margaret Boone Rappaport
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000760553
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of Religion in Human Evolution written by Margaret Boone Rappaport and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious capacity is a highly elaborate, neurocognitive human trait that has a solid evolutionary foundation. This book uses a multidisciplinary approach to describe millions of years of biological innovations that eventually give rise to the modern trait and its varied expression in humanity’s many religions. The authors present a scientific model and a central thesis that the brain organs, networks, and capacities that allowed humans to survive physically also gave our species the ability to create theologies, find sustenance in religious practice, and use religion to support the social group. Yet, the trait of religious capacity remains non-obligatory, like reading and mathematics. The individual can choose not to use it. The approach relies on research findings in nine disciplines, including the work of countless neuroscientists, paleoneurologists, archaeologists, cognitive scientists, and psychologists. This is a cutting-edge examination of the evolutionary origins of humanity’s interaction with the supernatural. It will be of keen interest to academics working in Religious Studies, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology, and Psychology.

Author : Pascal Boyer
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 046500461X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion Explained written by Pascal Boyer and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2007-03-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of our questions about religion, says renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, are no longer mysteries. We are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" Using findings from anthropology, cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary biology, Religion Explained shows how this aspect of human consciousness is increasingly admissible to coherent, naturalistic explanation. This brilliant and controversial book gives readers the first scientific explanation for what religious feeling is really about, what it consists of, and where it comes from.

Author : Albert Churchward
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317587693
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin and Evolution of Religion (Routledge Revivals) written by Albert Churchward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Churchward’s The Origin and Evolution of Religion, first published in 1924, explores the history and development of different religions worldwide, from the religious cults of magic and fetishism to contemporary religions such as Christianity and Islam. This text is ideal for students of theology.

Author : Yair Lior
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000638413
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion written by Yair Lior and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past two decades have seen a growing interest in evolutionary and scientific approaches to religion. The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting and emerging field. Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors the handbook pulls together scholarship in the following areas: evolutionary psychology and the cognitive science of religion (CSR) cultural evolution the complementarity of evolutionary psychology, cognitive science and cultural evolution Within these sections central issues, debates and problems are examined, including: Cliodynamics, cultural group selection, costly signaling, dual inheritance theory, literacy, transmitting narratives, prosociality, supernatural punishment, cognition and ritual, meme theory, fusion theory, sexual selection, agency detection, evoked culture, social brain hypothesis, theory of mind, developmental psychology, emergence theory, social learning, cultural cybernetics, cultural epidemiology, evolutionary and cultural psychology, memetics, by-product and adaptationist theories of religion, systems and information theory, and computer modeling. This Handbook is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies and anthropology. It will also be very useful to those in related fields, such as psychology, sociology of religion, cognitive biology, and evolutionary biology.

Author : Wilhelm Schmidt
Publisher : New York : Cooper Square Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin and Growth of Religion written by Wilhelm Schmidt and published by New York : Cooper Square Publishers. This book was released on 1972 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : P. Koslowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401009996
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concept of God, the Origin of the World, and the Image of the Human in the World Religions written by P. Koslowski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All religions make statements about God or the Absolute and about "the beginning": about the beginning of the world and the beginning and nature of the human person. Propositions about God, the human person, and the world, statements about God's eternity or process of becoming, about the status and nature of the human person as the "image of God", and about the beginning of the world are woven into "religious speculations about the beginning". The theology, anthropology, and cosmology of the world religions determine the image of the human person and the image of the world in the world cultures shaped by the different religions. They stand in a tense relationship with the anthropologies and cosmologies of modern science, which in turn challenge the religions to deepen their image of the human person. With this volume leading thinkers of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam provide the reader with a first-hand source for understanding the five world religions and their teaching about God, the human person, and the origin of the world.

Author : Samuel M. Zwemer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620320347
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin of Religion written by Samuel M. Zwemer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon the Smyth Lectures delivered at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia, 1935.

Author : Grant Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781979302241
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of the Idea of God: an Inquiry Into the Origin of Religions written by Grant Allen and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two main schools of religious thinking exist in our midst at the presentday: the school of humanists and the school of animists. This work is tosome extent an attempt to reconcile them. It contains, I believe, the firstextended effort that has yet been made to trace the genesis of the belief ina God from its earliest origin in the mind of primitive man up to its fullestdevelopment in advanced and etherealised Christian theology. My methodis therefore constructive, not destructive. Instead of setting out to argueaway or demolish a deep-seated and ancestral element in our complexnature, this book merely posits for itself the psychological question, " Bywhat successive steps did men come to frame for themselves the conceptionof a deity? " - or, if the reader so prefers it, "How did we arrive at our knowledge of God? " It seeks provisionally toanswer these profound and important questions by reference to the earliestbeliefs of savages, past or present, and to the testimony of historicaldocuments and ancient monuments. It does not concern itself at all withthe validity or invalidity of the ideas in themselves; it does but endeavourto show how inevitable they were, and how man's relation with the externaluniverse was certain a priori to beget them as of necessity.

Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin and Development of Religious Belief written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: