Contemporary theories of religion
Subtitle: a critical companion
By: edited by Michael Stausberg.
Contributors: Stausberg, Michael
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Abingdon, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780415463461; 9780415463478
Subjects: Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: There is life in the old dog yet: an introduction to contemporary theories of religion / Michael Stausberg; title: Religion as superhuman agency: on E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley (1990), Rethinking religion / Steven Engler & Mark Gardiner; title: Anthropomorphism and animism: on Stewart E. Guthrie (1993), Faces in the clouds / Benson Saler; title: From need to violence: on Walter Burkert (1996), Creation of the sacred / Gustavo Benavides; title: Religion as ritual: Roy Rappaport's changing views from pigs for the ancestors to ritual and religion in the making of humanity / Robert A. Segal; title: Religious economies and rational choice: on Rodney Stark and Roger Finke (2000), Acts of faith / Gregory D. Alles; title: Religion as communication: on Niklas Luhmann (2000), the Religion of society / Peter Beyer; title: Exotic experience and ordinary life: on Andrew Newberg, Eugene D'Aquili and Vince Rause, Why God won't go away / Matthew Eay; title: Religion as the unintended product of brain functions in the "standard cognitive science of religion model": on Pascal Boyer (2001), Religion explained and Ilkka Pyysi'ainen (2003), How religion works / Jeppe Sinding Jensen; title: Religion as evolutionary cascade: on Scott Atran (2002), In gods we trust / Joseph Bulbulia; title: Religion as superorganism: on David Sloan Wilson (2002), Darwin's cathedral / Joseph Bulbulia & Marcus Frean; title: Roots in the brain, the origin and explanation of religion: on Ddavid Lewis-Williams (2005), Inside the neolithic mind / Donald Wiebe; title: Boundary maintenance: religions as organic-cultural flows on Thomas Tweed (2006), Crossing and dwelling / Aaron W. Hughes; title: Theory of religion as myth: on Loyal Rue (2005), Religion is not about God / Hubert Seiwert; title: New atheistic approaches in the cognitive science of religion: on Daniel Dennett (2006), Breaking the spell, and Richard Dawkins (2006): the God delusion / Armin W. Geertz; title: Interventionist practices and the promises of religion: on Martin Riesebrodt (2007), Cultus und heilsversprechen / Michael Stausberg; title: Back and forth / Michael Stausberg.