Religious narrative, cognition, and culture
Subtitle: image and word in the mind of narrative
By: edited by Armin W. Geertz and Jeppe Sinding Jensen.
Contributors: Geertz, Armin W., 1948-; Jensen, Jeppe Sinding, 1951-
Series: Religion, cognition, and culture
Publisher: Equinox Pub. Ltd.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781845532949; 9781845532956
Subjects: Religion; Narration (Rhetoric); Culture; Cognition
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Armin W. Geertz & Jeppe Sinding Jensen; title: Theoretical perspectives; title: Religious narrative, cognition, and culture : approaches and definitions / Armin W. Geertz; title: Framing religious narrative, cognition, and culture theoretically / Jeppe Sinding Jensen; title: Levels of explanatory interpretation; title: Language as an emergent function : some radical neurological and evolutionary implications / Jeppe Sinding Jensen; title: The first hybrid minds on earth / Merlin Donald; title: Iconology and imagination : explorations in sociogenetic economies / Chris Sinha; title: The nature of narrative : schemes, genes, memes, dreams, and screams! / Rukmini Bhaya Nair; title: Believing and doing : ritual action enhances religious belief / Ilkka Pyysiinen; title: Cognitive approaches to the study of religious narratives; title: / Pumping intuitions: religious narratives and emotional communication / Tom Sjblom; title: Moses and the invasion of the body snatchers : Durkheim, cognition, and deuteronomy / Hans Jurgen Lundager Jensen; title: Fantastic re-collection : cultural vs. autobiographical memory in the Exodus narrative / Laura Feldt; title: Parables, cognitive shock, and spontaneous exegetical reflection / Douglas L. Gragg; title: Icons and agency in the Georgian Orthodox Church / Anders Nielsen; title: Towards a socio-cognitive approach to religious text : a case study inIndian epic literature / James M. Hegarty; title: Pole position : space, narrative, and religion / Anders Lisdorf; title: Narrativity in view of a theory of syncretism / Anita Maria Leopold; title: The salience and relevance of modern Icelandic SATR  : a preliminary case study in the immunology of culture / Gumundur Ingi Markisson; title: Baby in a bowl and other stories : socialization in astrological narrative / Kirstine Munk; title: To meet without actually meeting : cultural models of virtual rituals in 3d cyberspace / Kenneth Hansen.