Evolutionary processes in the natural history of religion : body, brain, belief / Hansjörg Hemminger.
Hemminger, Hansjörg, author.
2021
BL53 .H46 2021
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Title
Evolutionary processes in the natural history of religion : body, brain, belief / Hansjörg Hemminger.
Author
Hemminger, Hansjörg, author.
ISBN
9783030704087 (electronic bk.)
3030704084 (electronic bk.)
9783030704070
3030704076
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70408-7
Published
Cham : Springer, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-70408-7 doi
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BL53 .H46 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
200.9
Summary
The study of religion by the humanities and social sciences has become receptive for an evolutionary perspective. Some proposals model the evolution of religion in Darwinian terms, or construct a synergy between biological and non-Darwinian processes. The results, however, have not yet become truly interdisciplinary. The biological theory of evolution in form of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) is only sparsely represented in theories published so far by scholars of religion. Therefore this book reverses the line of view and asks how their results assort with evolutionary biology: How can the subject area "religion" be integrated into behavioral biology? How is theory building affected by the asymmetry between the scarce empirical knowledge of prehistoric religion, and the body of knowledge about extant and historic religions? How does hominin evolution in general relate to the evolution of religion? Are there evolutionary pre-adaptations? Subsequent versions of evolutionary biology from the original Darwinism to EES are used in interdisciplinary constructs. Can they be integrated into a comprehensive theory? The biological concept most often used is co-evolution, in form of a gene-culture co-evolution. However, the term denotes a process different from biological co-evolution. Important EES concepts do not appear in present models of religious evolution: e.g. neutral evolution, evolutionary drift, evolutionary constraints etc. How to include them into an interdisciplinary approach? Does the cognitive science of religion (CSR) harmonize with behavioral biology and the brain sciences? Religion as part of human culture is supported by a complex, multi-level behavioral system. How can it be modeled scientifically? The book addresses graduate students and researchers concerned about the scientific study of religion, and biologist interested in interdisciplinary theory building in the field
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New approaches to the scientific study of religion ; v. 10. 2367-3508
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Introduction
I. Religion through the eyes of a biologist
1. Evolution in all its facets
2. The scientific approach to religion
3. What do we know? What can be known?
4. Understanding religion from the inside
II. About evolutionary biology and the evolution of religion
5. Evolution: The Modern Synthesis
6. Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, epigenetics and the contingency of evolution
7. Gene-culture coevolution
III. Phenomenology of Paleolithic religion
8. A story told backwards
9. The beginning and the end: Pre-human and Neolithic religion
10. Hominin pre-adaptations: Background to the evolution of religion
IV. CSR: The cognitive science of religion
11. Evolutionary psychology and religion
12. Religious fanaticism
13. Practical religion and spirituality
14. Magic, religion and evolutionary ethics
V. Modeling the evolutionary path to culture and religion
15. Multi-level models of religious evolution
16. Conclusion and outlook.

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