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Death Anxiety and Religious Belief
An Existential Psychology of Religion
Av Jonathan Jong, Jamin Halberstadt m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
514 kr
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There are no atheists in foxholes; or so we hear. The thought that the fear of death motivates religious belief has been around since the earliest speculations about the origins of religion. There are hints of this idea in the ancient world, but the theory achieves prominence in the works of …
Social Cognition Perspective of the Psychology of Religion
“Why God Thinks Like You"
Häftad, 2025
415 kr
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An exploration of how psychological mechanisms produce intuitions, beliefs, behaviors, and experiences that are misattributed as being unique outcomes of religious or spiritual influences. Written from a social psychology perspective, this book proposes that religious and spiritual content …
Imagining the Cognitive Science of Religion
Magic Bullets, Complex Theories, Experimental Adventures
Av E. Thomas Lawson, Donald Wiebe m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
331 kr
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A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEUniting Thomas Lawson's essays on the cognitive science of religion, this volume explores theoretical issues in the study of cultural phenomena such as religion, the role of imagination, and the experiments that emerge from these theories.The book begins with …
Religious Evolution and the Axial Age
From Shamans to Priests to Prophets
Av Stephen K. Sanderson, Donald Wiebe
Häftad, 2019
500 kr
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Religious Evolution and the Axial Age describes and explains the evolution of religion over the past ten millennia. It shows that an overall evolutionary sequence can be observed, running from the spirit and shaman dominated religions of small-scale societies, to the archaic religions of the …
Construction of the Supernatural in Euro-American Cultures
Something Nice about Vampires
Inbunden, 2021
1345 kr
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This book describes aspects of the concept of the supernatural from the intellectual history of Euro-American cultures. These samplings shed light on issues in the study of religions and religion rather than attempting to provide either a lineally coherent or exhaustive account of a somewhat …
Beyond Legitimation
Essays on the Problem of Religious Knowledge
Av Donald Wiebe
Inbunden, 1994
1095 kr
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The early essays in this volume proceed on the assumption that a compatability system can be fashioned that will not only bring religious knowledge claims into harmony with scientific claims, but will also show there to be a fundamental similarity of method in religious and scientific thinking. …
Irony of Theology and the Nature of Religious Thought
Av Donald Wiebe
E-bok, 1990
1041 kr
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In a careful re-evaluation of the works of Lévy-Bruhl, Wiebe establishes the coherence of Lévy-Bruhl''s classic distinction between primitive, or mythopoeic, and scientific thought, maintaining that religious thinking is mythopoeic in nature while theology -- which thinks about religion -- is …
Beyond Legitimation
Essays on the Problem of Religious Knowledge
Av Donald Wiebe
E-bok, 2016
1550 kr
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The early essays in this volume proceed on the assumption that a compatibility system can be fashioned that will not only bring religious knowledge claims into harmony with scientific claims but will also show there to be a fundamental similarity of method in religious and scientific thinking. They …
Beyond Legitimation
Essays on the Problem of Religious Knowledge
Av Donald Wiebe
Häftad, 1994
1095 kr
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The early essays in this volume proceed on the assumption that a compatibility system can be fashioned that will not only bring religious knowledge claims into harmony with scientific claims but will also show there to be a fundamental similarity of method in religious and scientific thinking. They …
Religion Explained?
The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-five Years
Av Luther H. Martin, Donald Wiebe
Inbunden, 2017
1838 kr
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With contributions from founders of the field, including Justin Barrett, E. Thomas Lawson, Robert N. McCauley, Paschal Boyer, Armin Geertz and Harvey Whitehouse, as well as from younger scholars from successive stages in the field’s development, this is an important survey of the first twenty-five …
Religion Explained?
The Cognitive Science of Religion After Twenty-Five Years
Av Luther H. Martin, Donald Wiebe
E-bok, 2017
546 kr
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With contributions from founders of the field, including Justin Barrett, E. Thomas Lawson, Robert N. McCauley, Paschal Boyer, Armin Geertz and Harvey Whitehouse, as well as from younger scholars from successive stages in the field''s development, this is an important survey of the first twenty-five …
Religion Explained?
The Cognitive Science of Religion After Twenty-Five Years
Av Luther H. Martin, Donald Wiebe
E-bok, 2017
534 kr
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With contributions from founders of the field, including Justin Barrett, E. Thomas Lawson, Robert N. McCauley, Paschal Boyer, Armin Geertz and Harvey Whitehouse, as well as from younger scholars from successive stages in the field''s development, this is an important survey of the first twenty-five …
Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion
Häftad, 2017
556 kr
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Radek Kundt compares the notion of evolution in cultural evolutionary theories with neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory to determine the value of the biological concept for studying culture. Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion surveys the historical background of …
Religious Evolution and the Axial Age
From Shamans to Priests to Prophets
Av Stephen K. Sanderson, Donald Wiebe
Inbunden, 2018
1838 kr
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Religious Evolution and the Axial Age describes and explains the evolution of religion over the past ten millennia. It shows that an overall evolutionary sequence can be observed, running from the spirit and shaman dominated religions of small-scale societies, to the archaic religions of the …
New Patterns for Comparative Religion
Passages to an Evolutionary Perspective
Av William E. Paden, Donald Wiebe
Häftad, 2017
514 kr
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The cross-cultural study of religion has always gone hand in hand with the worldview, sciences, or intellectual frameworks of the time. These frames, whether focused on psychology or politics, gender or colonialism, bring out perspectives for understanding religious behavior. Today one of our …
Unnatural History of Religions
Academia, Post-truth and the Quest for Scientific Knowledge
Av Leonardo Ambasciano, Donald Wiebe
Inbunden, 2018
1697 kr
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An Unnatural History of Religions examines the origins, development, and critical issues concerning the history of religion and its relationship with science. The book explores the ideological biases, logical fallacies, and unwarranted beliefs that surround the scientific foundations (or lack …
Naturalism and Protectionism in the Study of Religions
Inbunden, 2020
1556 kr
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How should we study religion? Must we be religious ourselves to truly understand it? Do we study religion to advance our knowledge, or should the study of religions help to reintroduce the sacred into our increasingly secularized world? Juraj Franek argues that the study of religion has long been …
Study of Greek and Roman Religions
Insularity and Assimilation
Av Nickolas P. Roubekas, Donald Wiebe
Inbunden, 2022
1345 kr
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How should ancient religious ideas be approached? Is "religion" an applicable term to antiquity? Should classicists, ancient historians, and religious studies scholars work more closely together?Nickolas P. Roubekas argues that there is a disciplinary gap between the study of Greek and Roman …
Learned Practice of Religion in the Modern University
Inbunden, 2019
1697 kr
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In these essays, Donald Wiebe unveils a significant problem in the academic study of religion in colleges and universities in North America and Europe - that studies almost always exhibit a religious bias. To explore this issue, Wiebe looks at the religious and moral agendas behind the study of …
Learned Practice of Religion in the Modern University
Av Donald Wiebe
E-bok, 2019
515 kr
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In these essays, Donald Wiebe unveils a significant problem in the academic study of religion in colleges and universities in North America and Europe - that studies almost always exhibit a religious bias. To explore this issue, Wiebe looks at the religious and moral agendas behind the study of …
Learned Practice of Religion in the Modern University
Av Donald Wiebe
E-bok, 2019
500 kr
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In these essays, Donald Wiebe unveils a significant problem in the academic study of religion in colleges and universities in North America and Europe - that studies almost always exhibit a religious bias. To explore this issue, Wiebe looks at the religious and moral agendas behind the study of …
Understanding Religion Through Artificial Intelligence
Bonding and Belief
Av Justin E. Lane, Donald Wiebe
Inbunden, 2021
1415 kr
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In Understanding Religion through Artificial Intelligence, Justin E. Lane looks at the reasons why humans feel they are part of a religious group, despite often being removed from other group members by vast distances or multiple generations. To achieve this, Lane offers a new perspective that …
Religion Explained?
The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-five Years
Av Luther H. Martin, Donald Wiebe
Häftad, 2019
500 kr
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With contributions from founders of the field, including Justin Barrett, E. Thomas Lawson, Robert N. McCauley, Paschal Boyer, Armin Geertz and Harvey Whitehouse, as well as from younger scholars from successive stages in the field’s development, this is an important survey of the first twenty-five …
Solving the Evolutionary Puzzle of Human Cooperation
Av Glenn Barenthin, Donald Wiebe
Inbunden, 2019
1697 kr
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In this book, Glenn Barenthin provides a new solution to a key question in the cognitive and evolutionary study of religion: why do humans cooperate? What led humans, uniquely among animals, to have large-scale civilizations with unprecedented cooperation? One explanation, propagated by the Big God …
Impact of Ritual on Child Cognition
Av Veronika Rybanska, Donald Wiebe
Inbunden, 2020
1556 kr
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In this book, Veronika Rybanska explores how ritual participation affects the cognitive abilities of children. Rybanska argues that, far from being a simple matter of mindless copying, ritual participation in childhood requires rigorous computation by cognitive mechanisms. In turn, this computation …
Gnosticism and the History of Religions
Av David G. Robertson, Donald Wiebe
Inbunden, 2021
1415 kr
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Building on critical work in biblical studies, which shows how a historically-bounded heretical tradition called Gnosticism was ‘invented’, this work focuses on the following stage in which it was “essentialised” into a sui generis, universal category of religion. At the same time, it shows how …
Unnatural History of Religions
Academia, Post-truth and the Quest for Scientific Knowledge
Av Leonardo Ambasciano, Donald Wiebe
Häftad, 2020
486 kr
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An Unnatural History of Religions examines the origins, development, and critical issues concerning the history of religion and its relationship with science. The book explores the ideological biases, logical fallacies, and unwarranted beliefs that surround the scientific foundations (or lack …
Religion, Disease, and Immunology
Av Thomas B. Ellis, Donald Wiebe
Inbunden, 2022
1345 kr
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This book argues that religion has emerged over evolutionary time as a strategy for managing the transmission, contraction, and eradication of infectious disease.From purity and pollution codes to blood sacrifices and irrational beliefs, the book shows how religion supports not only the …
Connecting the Isiac Cults
Formal Modeling in the Hellenistic Mediterranean
Inbunden, 2022
1275 kr
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Why did Egyptian cults, especially those dedicated to the goddess Isis and god Sarapis, spread so successfully across the ancient Mediterranean after the death of Alexander the Great? How are we limited by the established methodological apparatus of historiography and which innovative methods from …
Connecting the Isiac Cults
Formal Modeling in the Hellenistic Mediterranean
Häftad, 2024
429 kr
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Why did Egyptian cults, especially those dedicated to the goddess Isis and god Sarapis, spread so successfully across the ancient Mediterranean after the death of Alexander the Great? How are we limited by the established methodological apparatus of historiography and which innovative methods from …
