Ancestors, territoriality, and Gods [electronic resource] : a natural history of religion / Ina Wunn, Davina Grojnowski.
Wunn, Ina, author.; Grojnowski, Davina, author.
2016
BL48
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Title Ancestors, territoriality, and Gods [electronic resource] : a natural history of religion / Ina Wunn, Davina Grojnowski.
Author Wunn, Ina, author.
ISBN 9783662527573 (electronic book)
366252757X (electronic book)
9783662527559
Published Berlin : Springer, [2016]
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
Call Number BL48
Dewey Decimal Classification 200
Summary This books sets out to explain how and why religion came into being. Today this question is as fascinating as ever, especially since religion has moved to the centre of socio-political relationships. In contrast to the current, but incomplete approaches from disciplines such as cognitive science and psychology, the present authors adopt a new approach, equally manifest and constructive, that explains the origins of religion based strictly on behavioural biology. They employ accepted research results that remove all need for speculation. Decisive factors for the earliest demonstrations of religion are thus territorial behaviour and ranking, coping with existential fears, and conflict solution with the help of rituals. These in turn, in a process of cultural evolution, are shown to be the roots of the historical and contemporary religions.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed August 15, 2016).
Added Author Grojnowski, Davina, author.
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The Question of When? (Lower Palaeolithic, c. 2.6 mybp
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and an Excursus in Art History
A Forest of Symbols
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Heroes, Gods, Sanctuaries
the male Principle and collective Cult
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The Double Axe and the Bull
a Pantheon Develops.

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