Religion, Anthropology, and Cognitive Science

preview-18
  • Religion, Anthropology, and Cognitive Science Book Detail

  • Author : Harvey Whitehouse
  • Release Date : 2007
  • Publisher :
  • Genre : Psychology
  • Pages : 316
  • ISBN 13 :
  • File Size : 7,7 MB

Religion, Anthropology, and Cognitive Science by Harvey Whitehouse PDF Summary

Book Description: This book examines longstanding debates in the anthropology of religion concerning the connections between ritual and meaning, belief, politics, emotion, development, and gender. But it examines these 'old' topics from a radically new perspective: that of the cognitive science of religion. As such the volume identifies potential solutions to established problems but it also sets out a program for future research in the field. The volume includes a substantial introduction from Harvey Whitehouse and James Laidlaw who highlight the connections between key issues in the history of religious anthropology and the latest findings of scientific psychology. This volume, they argue, presents us with potential solutions to old problems but also with a series of new and exciting challenges. This book is part of the Ritual Studies Monograph Series, edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh. "The introduction and endpapers by the editors, which detail these positions, are excellent; the papers in between, which explore the relation of EP to the thought of Malinowski, Durkheim, and other seminal anthropological scholars of religion, are likewise first rate... Highly recommended." -- C.S. Peebles, Indiana University-Bloomington, CHOICE Magazine

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Religion, Anthropology, and Cognitive Science books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Ritual and Memory

Ritual and Memory

File Size : 90,90 MB
Total View : 947 Views
DOWNLOAD

Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban se