Chasing down religion
Subtitle: in the sights of history and the cognitive sciences
By: edited by Panayotis Pachis and Donald Wiebe
Publisher: Equinox Publishing, Ltd
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Sheffield, UK; Bristol, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 583
ISBN-13: 9781781792070
Subjects: Religious Psychology; Religion; History; Cognitive science; Religions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-536) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Ancient and modern approaches to the representation of supernatural beings: dio chrisostom (oration 12) and Dan Sperber (explaining culture) compared / Beck Roger; title: Gnosis in European religious history / Berner Ulrich; title: The first shall be last: the gospel of Mark after the first century / Braun Will; title: Comparative religion scholars in debate: theology vs history in letters addressed to Ugo Bianchi / Casadio Giovanni; title: Why did greeks and romans pray aloud? Antropomorphism, 'dumb gods' and human cognition / Chalupa Aleš; title: Reflections on the origins of religious thought and behavior / Geertz W. Armin; title: Why is it better to be a plant than an animal? Cognitive poetics and ascetic ideals in the book of Thomas the Contender (Nhc II,7) / Gilhus Sælid Ingvild; title: Miracles, memory, and meaning: a cognitive approach to roman myths / Griffith B. Alison; title: 'Whatever story sings, the arena displays for you'. Performance, narrative, and myth in graeco-roman discourse / Heever van den Gerhard; title: Religion and violence: a psychoanalytic inquiry / Hewitt Aileen Marsha; title: Disciplinary Clans / Hrotic M. Steven; title: The social capital of religious communities in the age of globalization / Kippenberg G. Hans; title: Towards a cognitive historiography; title: frequently posed objections / Lisdorf Anders; title: How science and religion are more like theology and commonsense explanations than they are like each other: a cognitive account / McCauley N. Robert; title: The transmission of historical cognition / McCorkle W. William Jr.; title: Religion before 'religion'? / McCutcheon T. Russell; title: The discourse of a myth: Diodorus Siculus and the Egyptian theologoumena during the Hellenistic age / Pachis Panayotis; title: The history of religions and evolutionary models: some reflections on framing a mediating vocabulary / Paden E. William; title: Religion and modern culture / Petrou S. Ioannis; title: Do Relics do? Making a place for 'presence' in the comparative study of Relics / Robinson Douglas; title: Mithras in the magical papyri. Religio-historical reflections on various magical texts / Sanzi Ennio; title: The use of Egyptian tradition in Alexandria of the hellenistic and roman periods: self-display and identity or rulers, ideology, and further political propaganda / Savvopoulos Kyriakos; title: Buddhist hymns and medieval plainsong: some reflections on the links between neuroscience, music and religion / Trainor Kevin and Clark Anne; title: Citations of biblical texts in greek, jewish and christian inscriptions of late antiquity: a case of religious demarcation / Tsalampouni Ecaterini; title: Memorable religions: transmission, codification, and change in divergent Melanesian contexts / Whitehouse Harvey; title: Recovering 'religious experience' in the explanation of religion / Wiebe Donald; title: Can the study of religion be scientific? / Xygalatas Dimitris.