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Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture by Armin W. Geertz is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture about?
Attempts to understand the origins of humanity have raised fundamental questions about the complex relationship between cognition and culture. Central to the debates on origins is the role of religion, religious ritual and religious experience. What came first: individual religious (ecstatic) experiences, collective observances of transition situations, fear of death, ritual competence, magical coercion; mirror neurons or temporal lobe religiosity? Cognitive scientists are now providing us with important insights on phylogenetic and ontogenetic processes. Together with insights from the humanities and social sciences on the origins, development and maintenance of complex semiotic, social and cultural systems, a general picture of what is particularly human about humans could emerge. Reflections on the preconditions for symbolic and linguistic competence and practice are now within our grasp. __Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture__ puts culture centre stage in the cognitive science of religion.
Who reads Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Armin W. Geertz
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781317544548
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Religion, Psychology, History