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.
New Approaches to the Study of Religion
New Approaches to the Study 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 New Approaches to the Study of Religion write by Peter Antes. This book was released on 2004. New Approaches to the Study of Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture
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 2011. Religious Narrative, Cognition, and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contains contributions dealing with religious narrative and cognitive theory written by some of the world's leading scholars in the fields of cognitive science, narratology and comparative religion. This title explores the neurological processes and possible genetic foundations of how language emerged in Homo sapiens.
Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture
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.
