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Book Synopsis The Significance of Ancient Religions in Relation to Human Evolution and Brain Development by : Ernest Noel Reichardt
Download or read book The Significance of Ancient Religions in Relation to Human Evolution and Brain Development written by Ernest Noel Reichardt and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Significance of Ancient Religions by : E. Noel Reichardt
Download or read book The Significance of Ancient Religions written by E. Noel Reichardt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Significance of Ancient Religions: In Relation to Human Evolution and Brain Development The title of this work refers especially to the ancient religions of Oriental Paganism. The revelation of God in the figure of Jehovah is only dealt with, in the first place, to emphasise His complete separateness from the deities worshipped in those heathen cults; and in the second place to show that the conception of evolution which the study of these religions unfolds, leads us to the historic proof of the assumptions of Judaism and Christianity. The separateness of Jehovah is not sufficiently emphasised in current works on Comparative Religion; and if I am to develop my theme without prejudice, it is necessary that it should be clearly impressed on the reader, and that he should constantly bear it in mind. For what I propose to show in this work is that these ancient religions embody within themselves a continuous progression of ideas which - studied in the light of all our modern knowledge, and with special reference to their psychological value - completely reveal to us the evolutionary process responsible for the historical progression of humanity. I mean by the historical progression of humanity that perspective of human evolution during the last eight thousand years which embraces all the facts established by history, by anthropology, by the study of Comparative Religion, and by archæology. These religions are the expression of the development which has actually taken place in humanity during this period. The evolutionary process revealed in these religions is that of one continuous wave of vital energy acting unceasingly on a pre-existing form of life for many thousands of years, and lifting it to higher levels of capacity and of intelligence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Significance of Ancient Religions in Relation to Human Evolution and Brain Development by : Ernest Noel Reichardt
Download or read book The Significance of Ancient Religions in Relation to Human Evolution and Brain Development written by Ernest Noel Reichardt and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Significance of Ancient Religions in Relation to Human Evolution and Brain Development - Scholar's Choice Edition by : Ernest Noel Reichardt
Download or read book The Significance of Ancient Religions in Relation to Human Evolution and Brain Development - Scholar's Choice Edition written by Ernest Noel Reichardt and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Significance of Ancient Religions by : E. Noel Reichardt
Download or read book The Significance of Ancient Religions written by E. Noel Reichardt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Significance of Ancient Religions: In Relation to Human Evolution and Brain Development It is especially to be noted that this conception does not imply anything with regard to the exact relation between mind and brain. The reader may have whatever ideas he likes on this subject without prejudice to the postulate which I have advanced. It is admitted by all psychologists at the present day that the brain is the organ of mind, and there is only difference Of opinion on the further ques tion as to the exact nature of the relationship. This rela tionship does not come within the purview of this work; nor, indeed, is there any reason why the obscurity which surrounds it should hinder our efforts to establish a clear understanding of human evolution and psychology. We are as incapable Of' stating or of conceiving the ultimate relations of force and matter as we are those of mind and brain; but this incapacity has not prevented us from so dealing with forces and materials as to produce the brilliant achievements of mechanical science. And in the same way we may leave the ultimate relations of mind and brain on one side and pass on to extract, from the sequences Of events in human life and human consciousness that history pre sents to our view, the knowledge of evolution and of psychology that will enable us to deal intelligently with the problems that more immediately confront us in our daily lives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Significance of Ancient Religions in Relation to Human Evolution and Brain Development by : E. Noel Reichardt
Download or read book Significance of Ancient Religions in Relation to Human Evolution and Brain Development written by E. Noel Reichardt and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1912 Edition.
Book Synopsis Religion in Human Evolution by : Robert N. Bellah
Download or read book Religion in Human Evolution written by Robert N. Bellah and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice An ABC Australia Best Book on Religion and Ethics of the Year Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition—a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were worth living. It offers what is frequently seen as a forbidden theory of the origin of religion that goes deep into evolution, especially but not exclusively cultural evolution. “Of Bellah’s brilliance there can be no doubt. The sheer amount this man knows about religion is otherworldly...Bellah stands in the tradition of such stalwarts of the sociological imagination as Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. Only one word is appropriate to characterize this book’s subject as well as its substance, and that is ‘magisterial.’” —Alan Wolfe, New York Times Book Review “Religion in Human Evolution is a magnum opus founded on careful research and immersed in the ‘reflective judgment’ of one of our best thinkers and writers.” —Richard L. Wood, Commonweal
Book Synopsis Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods by : E. Fuller Torrey
Download or read book Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods written by E. Fuller Torrey and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religions and mythologies from around the world teach that God or gods created humans. Atheist, humanist, and materialist critics, meanwhile, have attempted to turn theology on its head, claiming that religion is a human invention. In this book, E. Fuller Torrey draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to propose a startling answer to the ultimate question. Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods locates the origin of gods within the human brain, arguing that religious belief is a by-product of evolution. Based on an idea originally proposed by Charles Darwin, Torrey marshals evidence that the emergence of gods was an incidental consequence of several evolutionary factors. Using data ranging from ancient skulls and artifacts to brain imaging, primatology, and child development studies, this book traces how new cognitive abilities gave rise to new behaviors. For instance, autobiographical memory, the ability to project ourselves backward and forward in time, gave Homo sapiens a competitive advantage. However, it also led to comprehension of mortality, spurring belief in an alternative to death. Torrey details the neurobiological sequence that explains why the gods appeared when they did, connecting archaeological findings including clothing, art, farming, and urbanization to cognitive developments. This book does not dismiss belief but rather presents religious belief as an inevitable outcome of brain evolution. Providing clear and accessible explanations of evolutionary neuroscience, Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods will shed new light on the mechanics of our deepest mysteries.
Book Synopsis Cultural Evolution by : Peter J. Richerson
Download or read book Cultural Evolution written by Peter J. Richerson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 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
Book Synopsis Academy; a Weekly Review of Literature, Learning, Science and Art by :
Download or read book Academy; a Weekly Review of Literature, Learning, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetical gazette; the official organ of the Poetry society and a review of poetical affairs, nos. 4-7 issued as supplements to the Academy, v. 79, Oct. 15, Nov. 5, Dec. 3 and 31, 1910
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Download or read book Journal of Religious Psychology, Including Its Anthropological and Sociological Aspects written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section, "Book reviews"
Book Synopsis Journal of Religious Psychology by : Granville Stanley Hall
Download or read book Journal of Religious Psychology written by Granville Stanley Hall and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section, "Book reviews".
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Download or read book Evolving God written by Barbara J. King and published by Doubleday UK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cutting-edge book—with echoes of both Jane Goodall and Joseph Campbell—adds a fascinating new dimension to the debate about the origins of religion. The study of evolution has uncovered invaluable information about many aspects of human behavior and culture, from the physiology of our bodies and brains to the development of hunting, technology, and social groups. But an understanding of the intangibles of human experience, especially religion, lags far behind. Attempts to discover the source of religiosity through genetic analysis and neuroscience have so far yielded intriguing but incomplete insights.Evolving Godrepresents an exciting breakthrough. Drawing on her own extensive investigations into the behavior of our closest primate relatives and the most up-to-date research in archaeology, anthropology, and biology, Barbara King offers a comprehensive, holistic view of how and why religion came to be. King focuses on how the Great Apes, our human ancestors, and modern humans relate to one another socially and emotionally, and she traces the growing complexities of communication throughout the course of evolution. She shows that, with increased brain capacity, the scope and nature of socio-emotional ties began with one-to-one relationships and expanded to group relationships (families and communities) and then to connections with long-dead ancestors, animal spirits, and “higher beings.” Her incisive, highly readable narrative takes readers from the earliest common relative of humans and apes (more than 6 million years ago), through the Neandertal period and the Stone Age, to the dawn of religion in early human societies. Evolving Godexplores one of the greatest mysteries in human history—the question of whether humankind is innately religious—and provides evidence that will have a tremendous impact on current debates about evolution, creationism, and intelligent design.
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