Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture write by Armin W. Geertz. This book was released on 2014-09-11. Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Attempts to understand the origins of humanity have raised fundamental questions about the complex relationship between cognition and culture. Central to the debates on origins is the role of religion, religious ritual and religious experience. What came first: individual religious (ecstatic) experiences, collective observances of transition situations, fear of death, ritual competence, magical coercion; mirror neurons or temporal lobe religiosity? Cognitive scientists are now providing us with important insights on phylogenetic and ontogenetic processes. Together with insights from the humanities and social sciences on the origins, development and maintenance of complex semiotic, social and cultural systems, a general picture of what is particularly human about humans could emerge. Reflections on the preconditions for symbolic and linguistic competence and practice are now within our grasp. Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture puts culture centre stage in the cognitive science of religion.
Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture
Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture write by Armin W. Geertz. This book was released on 2014-10-20. Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture' brings together some of the world's leading scholars in the fields of cognitive science and comparative religion. The essays range across diverse fields: the neurological processes and possible genetic foundations of how language emerged; the possible phylogenetic routes in the development of language and culture; the complex interrelations between the ontogenesis and the sociogenesis of cognitive processes; the value of a combination of neurology, narratology and a reworked speech-act approach that focuses on narrative; how the psychology of ritual helps make narrative beliefs possible; religious narratives; emotional communication; the role of gossip as religious narrative; area studies of religious narrative and cognition in the Bible; Indian Epic literature; Australian Aboriginal mythology and ritual; modern religious forms such as New Age, Asatro, astrological narrative and virtual rituals in cyberspace.
Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion
Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion write by Anders Klostergaard Petersen. This book was released on 2019. Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The chapters explore the possible development of a new scholarly synthesis for the study of religion, founded on the triadic space constituted by evolution, cognition, cultural and ecological environment. Chapters focus on either evolution, cognition, and/or the history of religion.
Religion Explained
Religion Explained - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion Explained write by Pascal Boyer. This book was released on 2007-03-21. Religion Explained available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many of our questions about religion, says the internationally renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, were once mysteries, but they no longer are: we are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" and "Why is religion the way it is?" Using findings from anthropology, cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary biology, Boyer shows how one of the most fascinating aspects of human consciousness is increasingly admissible to coherent, naturalistic explanation. And Man Creates God tells readers, for the first time, what religious feeling is really about, what it consists of, and how it originates. It is a beautifully written, very accessible book by an anthropologist who is highly respected on both sides of the Atlantic. As a scientific explanation for religious feeling, it is sure to arouse controversy.
Origins of the Modern Mind
Origins of the Modern Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Origins of the Modern Mind write by Merlin Donald. This book was released on 1993-03-15. Origins of the Modern Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This bold and brilliant book asks the ultimate question of the life sciences: How did the human mind acquire its incomparable power? In seeking the answer, Merlin Donald traces the evolution of human culture and cognition from primitive apes to artificial intelligence, presenting an enterprising and original theory of how the human mind evolved from its presymbolic form.
