Intentional systems theory as a conceptual framework for religious studies
Subtitle: a scientific method for studying beliefs
By: Matti Kamppinen ; with a preface by Luther H. Martin
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 129
ISBN-13: 9780773414129
Subjects: Religion; Methodology; Intentionality (Philosophy); System theory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-126) and index.
Table of contents: title: Intentional systems theory and the empirical study of religion; title: Intentional systems and common sense; title: Intentional systems in the works of Durkheim, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard; title: Amazonian folk religion; title: Theory of intentional systems; title: Systems thinking; title: Composition of intentional systems; title: Structure of intentional systems; title: Belief as a theoretical and functional entity; title: Religious intentional systems; title: Religious contents and their dynamics; title: Hallmark of religious contents; title: Gods in flabbergast, a constructed religion; title: Cultural models as systems of contents; title: Dynamics of contents : tradition ecology; title: Tradition ecology and illness models; title: Rationality as systemic property; title: Rationality as a precondition of ethnographic descriptions; title: Rationality as an explanatory principle; title: Rationality and religious games; title: Rationality and critical study of religion; title: Navigating in the world of uncertainty; title: Possible worlds; title: Cultural models of time; title: Playing against Yashingo; title: Playing against technological risks; title: Playing against market forces; title: Playing against superior beings in archaic and modern societies; title: Imposing the features of religions into other cultural systems; title: Concepts of boundary and sacred; title: Intentional systems and boundaries; title: Foundations and uses of boundaries; title: Sacred as a boundary that involves supernatural entities.