Theology after the Birth of God [electronic resource] : Atheist Conceptions in Cognition and Culture /
Shults, F.author.
Engaging recent developments within the bio-cultural study of religion, Shults unveils the evolved cognitive and coalitional mechanisms by which god-conceptions are engendered in minds and nurtured in societies. He discovers and attempts to liberate a radically atheist trajectory that has long been suppressed within the discipline of theology.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Preface; Chapter 1 The gods Are Born-and We Have Borne Them; Why Is Nietzsche's Madman So Easy to Ignore?; Bearing gods in Cognition and Culture; Conceiving Religion; Atheist Conceptions after the Birth of "God"; Having "the Talk" about Religious Reproduction; Chapter 2 Anthropomorphic Promiscuity and Sociographic Prudery; Where Do gods Come from-and Why Do We Keep Them Around?; Detecting Supernatural Agents; Protecting Supernatural Coalitions; Interesting and Interested Parties; Affective and Collective Security
Consciousness and Social ContractsHow god Was Born; How god Was Borne; Unveiling Theogonic Mechanisms; Chapter 3 The Scientific Discipline of Theology; From Interdisciplinary Revolt to Regicide; Sacerdotal and Iconoclastic Trajectories in Theology; Commodified Parasitic Knowledge of Airy Nothing; Half-Baked Representations of Logically Impossible Worlds; Factitious Enigmas of Complaisant Religious Pundits; Ockham's Shaving Foam on Divine Attachment Figures; Management of Ritual Failure through Excess Conceptual Control; Reactionary Immunization of Foundational Sacred Texts
What Is Theology "about"?Chapter 4 Arguing about Axiological Engagement; Modes of Inference; Existential Conditions; The Problem of Good in the Evolutionary Sciences; Religious Hypotheses; Theological Hypotheses; The Problem of Evil in the Monotheistic Religions; Justifying a Supranatural Agent; Sanctifying a Supranatural Coalition; (Phylo)genetic Fallacies; Chapter 5 Religious Family Systems; My god Can Beat Up Your god; Feeling Religious Difference; Emotional Systems; Triangulating Anxiety; Differentiation of Self; Fusion in Religious Families of Origin
Domesticating Infinity-the Triangulation of godThe Tragedy of Sacerdotal Theologies of Religion; Differentiation and Iconoclastic Intensification; Chapter 6 Letting gods Go: Naturalism and Secularism; Must gods Be Born(e)?; Methodological Naturalism and Anthropomorphic Prudery; Methodological Secularism and Sociographic Promiscuity; Plausibility, Feasibility, and Theolytic Retroduction; god and Other Minds; Psychology, Therapy, and "Religion"; god and Other Groups; Politics, Peace, and "Religion"; Living Together-on Our Own; Chapter 7 Postpartum Theology; Liberating Atheistic Hypotheses
Beyond "Natural Theology"Beyond "Secular Theology"; Intensity, Infinity, and Intentionality; What Can We Learn from the Madman?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Engaging recent developments within the bio-cultural study of religion, Shults unveils the evolved cognitive and coalitional mechanisms by which god-conceptions are engendered in minds and nurtured in societies. He discovers and attempts to liberate a radically atheist trajectory that has long been suppressed within the discipline of theology.
Religion-Philosophy.
Religion.
Philosophy.
Modern philosophy.
Philosophy of Religion.
Religious Studies, general.
History of Philosophy.
Modern Philosophy.