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Cultural Evolution

Author : Peter J. Richerson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262019752
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Evolution written by Peter J. Richerson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars report on current research that demonstrates the central role of cultural evolution in explaining human behavior. Over the past few decades, a growing body of research has emerged from a variety of disciplines to highlight the importance of cultural evolution in understanding human behavior. Wider application of these insights, however, has been hampered by traditional disciplinary boundaries. To remedy this, in this volume leading researchers from theoretical biology, developmental and cognitive psychology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, religious studies, history, and economics come together to explore the central role of cultural evolution in different aspects of human endeavor. The contributors take as their guiding principle the idea that cultural evolution can provide an important integrating function across the various disciplines of the human sciences, as organic evolution does for biology. The benefits of adopting a cultural evolutionary perspective are demonstrated by contributions on social systems, technology, language, and religion. Topics covered include enforcement of norms in human groups, the neuroscience of technology, language diversity, and prosociality and religion. The contributors evaluate current research on cultural evolution and consider its broader theoretical and practical implications, synthesizing past and ongoing work and sketching a roadmap for future cross-disciplinary efforts. Contributors Quentin D. Atkinson, Andrea Baronchelli, Robert Boyd, Briggs Buchanan, Joseph Bulbulia, Morten H. Christiansen, Emma Cohen, William Croft, Michael Cysouw, Dan Dediu, Nicholas Evans, Emma Flynn, Pieter François, Simon Garrod, Armin W. Geertz, Herbert Gintis, Russell D. Gray, Simon J. Greenhill, Daniel B. M. Haun, Joseph Henrich, Daniel J. Hruschka, Marco A. Janssen, Fiona M. Jordan, Anne Kandler, James A. Kitts, Kevin N. Laland, Laurent Lehmann, Stephen C. Levinson, Elena Lieven, Sarah Mathew, Robert N. McCauley, Alex Mesoudi, Ara Norenzayan, Harriet Over, Jürgen Renn, Victoria Reyes-García, Peter J. Richerson, Stephen Shennan, Edward G. Slingerland, Dietrich Stout, Claudio Tennie, Peter Turchin, Carel van Schaik, Matthijs Van Veelen, Harvey Whitehouse, Thomas Widlok, Polly Wiessner, David Sloan Wilson

Language and Religion

Author : Robert Yelle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614514321
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Language and Religion written by Robert Yelle and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws on an interdisciplinary team of authors to advance the study of the religious dimensions of communication and the linguistic aspects of religion. Contributions cover: poetry, iconicity, and iconoclasm in religious language; semiotic ideologies in traditional religions and in secularism; and the role of materiality and writing in religious communication. This volume will provoke new approaches to language and religion.

Language, Religion, Culture and the Sciences

Author : Maribel Fierro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780860787099
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Language, Religion, Culture and the Sciences written by Maribel Fierro and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Science, Belief and Society

Author : Jones, Stephen
Publisher : Bristol University Press
ISBN 13 : 1529206944
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Science, Belief and Society written by Jones, Stephen and published by Bristol University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between science and belief has been a prominent subject of public debate for many years, one that has relevance to everything from science communication, health and education to immigration and national values. Yet, sociological analysis of these subjects remains surprisingly scarce. This wide-ranging book critically reviews the ways in which religious and non-religious belief systems interact with scientific theories and practices. Contributors explore how, for some secularists, ‘science’ forms an important part of social identity. Others examine how many contemporary religious movements justify their beliefs by making a claim upon science. Moving beyond the traditional focus on the United States, the book shows how debates about science and belief are firmly embedded in political conflict, class, community and culture.

Language, Religion, Culture and the Sciences

Author : Maribel Fierro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780860787099
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Language, Religion, Culture and the Sciences written by Maribel Fierro and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How Religion Works

Author : Ilkka Pyysiäinen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004496211
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book How Religion Works written by Ilkka Pyysiäinen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent findings in cognitive science and evolutionary psychology provide important insights to the processes which make religious beliefs and behaviors such efficient attractors in and across various cultural settings. The specific salience of religious ideas is based on the fact that they are 'counter-intuitive': they contradict our intuitive expectations of how entities normally behave. Counter-intuitive ideas are only produced by a mind capable of crossing the boundaries that separate such ontological domains as persons, living things, and solid objects. The evolution of such a mind has only taken place in the human species. How certain kinds of counter-intuitive ideas are selected for a religious use is discussed from varying angles. Cognitive considerations are thus related to the traditions of comparative religion. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

Culture and the Cognitive Science of Religion

Author : James Cresswell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315415194
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Culture and the Cognitive Science of Religion written by James Cresswell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and the Cognitive Science of Religion is the first book to bring together cultural psychology and the cognitive science of religion (CSR). Containing much-needed discussion of how good research should do more than simply follow methodological prescriptions, this thought-provoking and original book outlines the ways in which CSR can be used to study everyday religious belief without sacrificing psychological science. Cresswell’s pragmatist approach expands CSR in a radically new direction. The author shows how language and culture can be integrated within CSR in order to achieve an alternative ontogenetic and phylogenetic approach to cognition, and argues that a view of cognition that is not based on modularity, but on the dynamic connection between an organism and its milieu, can lead to a view of evolution that makes much more room for the constitutive role of culture in cognition. As a provocative attempt to persuade researchers to engage with religious communities more directly, the book should be essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students, as well as psychologists interested in the cognitive science of religion, theological anthropology, religious studies and cultural anthropology.

Religion After Science

Author : J. L. Schellenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108499031
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Religion After Science written by J. L. Schellenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a new perspective on religion that acknowledges all its past and present faults while remaining optimistic about its future.

Mathematics and Religion

Author : Javier Leach
Publisher : Templeton Press
ISBN 13 : 9781599471495
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Mathematics and Religion written by Javier Leach and published by Templeton Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematics and Religion: Our Languages of Sign and Symbol is the sixth title published in the Templeton Science and Religion Series, in which scientists from a wide range of fields distill their experience and knowledge into brief tours of their respective specialties. In this volume, Javier Leach, a mathematician and Jesuit priest, leads a fascinating study of the historical development of mathematical language and its influence on the evolution of metaphysical and theological languages. Leach traces three historical moments of change in this evolution: the introduction of the deductive method in Greece, the use of mathematics as a language of science in modern times, and the formalization of mathematical languages in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As he unfolds this fascinating history, Leach notes the striking differences and interrelations between the two languages of science and religion. Until now there has been little reflection on these similarities and differences, or about how both languages can complement and enrich each other.

Christian Theology and Scientific Culture

Author : Thomas F. Torrance
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1579101305
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Christian Theology and Scientific Culture written by Thomas F. Torrance and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 1998-06-30 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we react to the claim that physics must now be regarded as one of the liberal arts, for in its description of the universe it sets the stage for the drama of human life? If modern science has now become the dominant culture, how does Christianity look within it? What difference does the Christian idea of the contingence of nature make to science today? What difference does it make for Christian thought and culture to move away from the old idea of the world as a closed mechanical system of cause and effect into the new idea of the world as an open dynamic system configured by the behavior of light, the fastest messenger in the universe? These are some of the questions discussed in the light of James Clerk Maxwell's discoveries of the mathematical properties of light, and of Albert Einstein's generalization of the new understanding of light for a radically new and exciting view of nature that has made space travel possible and enabled us to trace the expansion of the universe back to conditions near its beginning. This is not a defensive book about science and religion in the usual vein. It is concerned rather with the deep mutual relation and respect of Christian and scientific thought for each other, and shows how this relationship throws new light upon basic Christian doctrines. This volume also warns against the dangers of a reactionary retreat from the rigors of scientific thought into fuzzy mythological interpretations of the incarnation, and calls for a deeper appreciation of the Nicene Creed upon which all Christendom rests.

The Two Cultures

Author : C. P. Snow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107606144
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Two Cultures written by C. P. Snow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of science and technology and future of education and research are just some of the subjects discussed here.

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science

Author : Philip Clayton
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
ISBN 13 : 0199279276
Total Pages : 1041 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science written by Philip Clayton and published by Oxford Handbooks Online. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1041 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of `science and religion' is exploding in popularity among both academics and the reading public. This is a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the debate, written by the leading experts yet accessible to the general reader.

Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions

Author : Anne Runehov
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9781402082641
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions written by Anne Runehov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To all who love the God with a 1000 names and respect science” In the last quarter century, the academic field of Science and Theology (Religion) has attracted scholars from a wide variety of disciplines. The question is, which disciplines are attracted and what do these disciplines have to contribute to the debate? In order to answer this question, the encyclopedia maps the (self)-identified disciplines and religious traditions that participate or might come to participate in the Science and Religion debate. This is done by letting each representative of a discipline and tradition answer specific chosen questions. They also need to identify the discipline in relation to the Science and Religion debate. Understandably representatives of several disciplines and traditions answered in the negative to this question. Nevertheless, they can still be important for the debate; indeed, scholars and scientists who work in the field of Science and Theology (Religion) may need knowledge beyond their own specific discipline. Therefore the encyclopedia also includes what are called general entries. Such entries may explain specific theories, methods, and topics. The general aim is to provide a starting point for new lines of inquiry. It is an invitation for fresh perspectives on the possibilities for engagement between and across sciences (again which includes the social and human sciences) and religions and theology. This encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference work for scholars interested in the topic of ‘Science and Religion.’ It covers the widest spectrum possible of academic disciplines and religious traditions worldwide, with the intent of laying bare similarities and differences that naturally emerge within and across disciplines and religions today. The A–Z format throughout affords easy and user-friendly access to relevant information. Additionally, a systematic question-answer format across all Sciences and Religions entries affords efficient identification of specific points of agreement, conflict, and disinterest across and between sciences and religions. The extensive cross-referencing between key words, phrases, and technical language used in the entries facilitates easy searches. We trust that all of the entries have something of value for any interested reader. Anne L.C. Runehov and Lluis Oviedo

Religion and the Scientific Future

Author : Langdon Gilkey
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865540309
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Scientific Future written by Langdon Gilkey and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition

Author : James C. Ungureanu
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822945819
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition written by James C. Ungureanu and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the “conflict thesis” between science and religion—the notion of perennial conflict or warfare between the two—is part of our modern self-understanding. As the story goes, John William Draper (1811–1882) and Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918) constructed dramatic narratives in the nineteenth century that cast religion as the relentless enemy of scientific progress. And yet, despite its resilience in popular culture, historians today have largely debunked the conflict thesis. Unravelling its origins, James Ungureanu argues that Draper and White actually hoped their narratives would preserve religious belief. For them, science was ultimately a scapegoat for a much larger and more important argument dating back to the Protestant Reformation, where one theological tradition was pitted against another—a more progressive, liberal, and diffusive Christianity against a more traditional, conservative, and orthodox Christianity. By the mid-nineteenth century, narratives of conflict between “science and religion” were largely deployed between contending theological schools of thought. However, these narratives were later appropriated by secularists, freethinkers, and atheists as weapons against all religion. By revisiting its origins, development, and popularization, Ungureanu ultimately reveals that the “conflict thesis” was just one of the many unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation.

The New Sciences of Religion

Author : W. Grassie
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230114741
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The New Sciences of Religion written by W. Grassie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing a critical analysis of new scientific research on religious and spiritual phenomena, Grassie takes a two-staged phenomenological approach working from the 'outside in' and the 'bottom up' without privileging at the outset any religious traditions or philosophical assumptions.

Science Culture, Language, and Education in America

Author : Emily Schoerning
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349958131
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Science Culture, Language, and Education in America written by Emily Schoerning and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the culture and language of science be an alienating force that discourages marginalized people from identifying with scientists and pursuing higher education in the sciences? More broadly, does an education system which unwittingly presents science as a distinct culture result in a population susceptible to doubt, confusion, and denial? This volume explores how this 'culture of science' is reflected and transmitted in the classroom, and how this can have wide-reaching and often negative implications for science education and science literacy. Well-intentioned efforts to bring hands-on scientific experiences into the classroom must also take into account how students perceive the culture of science. Areas of potential conflict include linguistic and cultural behaviors, misconceptions about science and the nature of science, and, in some cases, religious worldviews. Once recognized, these conflicts are resolvable, and valid methods exist to reduce alienation, broaden participation, and ensure that all students, whether or not they pursue STEM careers, leave school knowing that science is something that they can trust.