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Rethinking Symbolism

Author : Dan Sperber
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521099677
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Symbolism written by Dan Sperber and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1975-09-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthropologists. He demonstrates that symbols enter all phases of social life: those which we tend to regard as strictly pragmatic, or based on concerns with material need or advantage, as well as those which we tend to view as purely symbolic, such as ideology, ritual, myth, moral codes, and the like. . . ."—Robert McKinley, Reviews in Anthropology

Rethinking Religion

Author : E. Thomas Lawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521438063
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Religion written by E. Thomas Lawson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an ambitious attempt to develop a cognitive approach to religion. Focusing particularly on ritual action, it borrows analytical methods from linguistics and other cognitive sciences. The authors, a philosopher of science and a scholar of comparative religion, provide a lucid critical review of established approaches to religion, and make a strong plea for the combination of interpretation and explanation. Often represented as competitive approaches, they are rather, complementary, equally vital to the study of symbolic systems.

Rethinking Whitehead's Symbolism

Author : Roland Faber
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474429599
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Whitehead's Symbolism written by Roland Faber and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 11 essays by leading Whitehead scholars re-examinae Whitehead's Barbour-Page lectures, published as the book Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect in 1927, to give you exciting insights into the contemporary implications of Whitehead's symbolism in an era of new scientific, cultural and technological developments.

Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth

Author : Leopold Damrosch Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400853737
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth written by Leopold Damrosch Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a controversial examination of the conceptual bases of Blake's myth, Leopold Damrosch argues that his poems contain fundamental contradictions, but that this fact docs not imply philosophical or artistic failure. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Author : R. Jon McGee
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506307752
Total Pages : 1053 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology written by R. Jon McGee and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 1053 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social and cultural anthropology and archaeology are rich subjects with deep connections in the social and physical sciences. Over the past 150 years, the subject matter and different theoretical perspectives have expanded so greatly that no single individual can command all of it. Consequently, both advanced students and professionals may be confronted with theoretical positions and names of theorists with whom they are only partially familiar, if they have heard of them at all. Students, in particular, are likely to turn to the web to find quick background information on theorists and theories. However, most web-based information is inaccurate and/or lacks depth. Students and professionals need a source to provide a quick overview of a particular theory and theorist with just the basics—the "who, what, where, how, and why," if you will. In response, SAGE Reference plans to publish the two-volume Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia. Features & Benefits: Two volumes containing approximately 335 signed entries provide users with the most authoritative and thorough reference resource available on anthropology theory, both in terms of breadth and depth of coverage. To ease navigation between and among related entries, a Reader's Guide groups entries thematically and each entry is followed by Cross-References. In the electronic version, the Reader's Guide combines with the Cross-References and a detailed Index to provide robust search-and-browse capabilities. An appendix with a Chronology of Anthropology Theory allows students to easily chart directions and trends in thought and theory from early times to the present. Suggestions for Further Reading at the end of each entry and a Master Bibliography at the end guide readers to sources for more detailed research and discussion.

Pain and Its Ending

Author : Carol S. Anderson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780700710652
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Pain and Its Ending written by Carol S. Anderson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The four noble truths are the most widely recognized teaching of the Buddha today. This book is the first comprehensive study of the teaching as it appears in the the Tipitaka, the canon of the Theravada Buddhism." --Book Jacket.

Imagining the Cognitive Science of Religion

Author : E. Thomas Lawson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350355895
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Imagining the Cognitive Science of Religion by : E. Thomas Lawson

Download or read book Imagining the Cognitive Science of Religion written by E. Thomas Lawson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniting Thomas Lawson's essays on the cognitive science of religion, this volume explores theoretical issues in the study of cultural phenomena such as religion, the role of imagination, and the experiments that emerge from these theories. The book begins with Lawson's influential essay Towards a Cognitive Science of Religion, which was the first to employ the phrase, and has since become widely adopted in many different disciplines. It signals to scholars in the humanities that the cognitive revolution has finally reached them and serves to introduce them to the world of science. The rest of the book focuses on theoretical issues in the study of cultural phenomena and describes experiments by scholars working on the connections between cognition and culture. Described as "the grandfather of the cognitive science of religion," Lawson offers a unique perspective on the development of the field and the principles that underlie it, which will be relevant to both newcomers and established scholars.

Zoroastrian Rituals in Context

Author : Michael Stausberg
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047412508
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Zoroastrian Rituals in Context written by Michael Stausberg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rituals play a prominent role in Zoroastrianism, one of the oldest religious traditions of mankind. In this book, scholars from a broad range of disciplines make the first ever collective effort to discuss Zoroastrian rituals in different historical contexts and geographical settings.

Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice

Author : Jennifer Wright Knust
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199738963
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice written by Jennifer Wright Knust and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the multiple meanings and functions of sacrifice in diverse religious texts and practices from the late Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods.

Organizational Symbolism

Author : Barry A. Turner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311085161X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Organizational Symbolism by : Barry A. Turner

Download or read book Organizational Symbolism written by Barry A. Turner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cognitive Science and Ancient Israelite Religion

Author : Brett E. Maiden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108859259
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Science and Ancient Israelite Religion written by Brett E. Maiden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Brett Maiden employs the tools, research, and theories from the cognitive science of religion to explore religious thought and behavior in ancient Israel. His study focuses on a key set of distinctions between intuitive and reflective types of cognitive processing, implicit and explicit concepts, and cognitively optimal and costly religious traditions. Through a series of case studies, Maiden examines a range of topics including popular and official religion, Deuteronomic theology, hybrid monsters in ancient iconography, divine cult statues in ancient Mesopotamia and the biblical idol polemics, and the Day of Atonement ritual in Leviticus 16. The range of media, including ancient texts, art, and archaeological data from ancient Israel, as well theoretical perspectives demonstrates how a dialogue between biblical scholars and cognitive researchers can be fostered.

The "grammar" of Sacrifice

Author : Naphtali S. Meshel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198705565
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The "grammar" of Sacrifice written by Naphtali S. Meshel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion that rituals, like natural languages, are governed by implicit, rigorous rules led scholars in the last century, harking back to the early Indian grammarian Patanjali, to speak of a "grammar", or "syntax", of ritual, particularly sacrificial ritual. Despite insightful examples of ritual complexes that follow hierarchical rules akin to syntactic structures in natural languages, and ambitious attempts to imagine a Universal Grammar of sacrificial ritual, no single, comprehensive "grammar" of any ritual system has yet been composed. This book offers the first such "grammar." Centering on *S-the idealized sacrificial system represented in the Priestly laws in the Pentateuch--it demonstrates that a ritual system is describable in terms of a set of concise, unconsciously internalized, generative rules, analogous to the grammar of a natural language. Despite far-reaching diachronic developments, reflected in Second Temple and rabbinic literature, the ancient Israelite sacrificial system retained a highly unchangeable "grammar," which is abstracted and analysed in a formulaic manner. The limits of the analogy to linguistics are stressed: rather than categories borrowed from linguistics, such as syntax and morphology, the operative categories of *S are abstracted inductively from the ritual texts: zoemics--the study of the classes of animals used in ritual sacrifice; jugation-the rules governing the joining of animal and non-animal materials; hierarchics-the tiered structuring of sacrificial sequences; and praxemics--the analysis of the physical activity comprising sacrificial procedures. Finally, the problem of meaning in non-linguistic ritual systems is addressed.

Being Religious

Author : Mladen Turk
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620324040
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Being Religious written by Mladen Turk and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-12 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes us religious? What is religion? This book presents relevant research and theoretical proposals for evolutionary theories of religion and socially and ecologically adaptive theories of religion. Most attempts to study religious behaviors through evolutionary biology and related disciplines are still very fragmentary. Mladen Turk brings those theoretical approaches in dialogue with religious studies and theology through interpretation and critique that centers on revealing hidden theological assumptions and interpreting theoretical leaps of those approaches to religion. In Being Religious Turk expounds understanding of religion as a complex interplay of various capacities arising from and influencing our biological and cultural makeup. Our religious behaviors can influence our relationship towards each other and towards our environment in significant ways. He shows how some aspects of complex religious behaviors can be understood better in light of human cognition and evolutionary biology. At the same time he interprets this knowledge as being preliminary and at times inadequate in its claims of completeness and exhaustiveness because religious behaviors are niched within other religious behaviors and dependent on factors that various mono-causal theoretical approaches cannot fully conceptualize.

Academic Study of Religions in a Cognitive, Anthropological and Sociological Perspective

Author : Tomáš Bubík
Publisher : Palacký University Olomouc
ISBN 13 : 8024460130
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book Academic Study of Religions in a Cognitive, Anthropological and Sociological Perspective written by Tomáš Bubík and published by Palacký University Olomouc. This book was released on 2021 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with current issues of the study of religion as an academic discipline, especially cognitive, anthropological and sociological research of religious thought and behaviour. Publikace pojednává o aktuálních problémech religionistiky jako akademické disciplíny, zejména pak o kognitivním, antropologickém a sociologickém výzkumu náboženského myšlení a chování.

Interpreting Neville

Author : J. Harley Chapman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791498743
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Neville written by J. Harley Chapman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1999-05-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpreting Neville provides the first book-length treatment of the thought of Robert Cummings Neville, one of the most important and wide-ranging scholars working across the fields of philosophy, theology, and comparative studies today. Contributors assess the systematic structure and methodological unity of Neville's trilogy Axiology of Thinking, provide a postmodern contextualization of Neville's philosophy, and evaluate the critical relation of Neville to the history of Western philosophy. Metaphysical questions crucial to Neville's project are critiqued from different vantage points, theological problems are examined, and the comparative issues outstanding in Neville's understanding of Chinese philosophy are assessed. Enhancing the book is a rich concluding essay written by Neville himself in response to each author. [Contributors include George Allan, Delwin Brown, J. Harley Chapman, Chung-ying Cheng, Patricia Cook, Robert Corrington, Hermann Deuser, Lewis S. Ford, Nancy K. Frankenberry, David L. Hall, George R. Lucas, Jr., Robert C. Neville, Sandra Rosenthal, Marjorie Suchocki, Carl G. Vaught, and Edith Wyschogrod.]

Studies in Hellenistic Religions

Author : Luther H. Martin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 149828308X
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Hellenistic Religions written by Luther H. Martin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of essays by Luther Martin brings together studies from throughout his career—both early as well as more recent—in the various areas of Graeco-Roman religions, including mystery cults, Judaism, Christianity, and Gnosticism. It is hoped that these studies, which represent spatial, communal, and cognitive approaches to the study of ancient religions might be of interest to those concerned with the structures and dynamics of religions past in general, as well as to scholars who might, with more recent historical research, confirm, evaluate, extend, or refute the hypotheses offered here, for that is the way scholars work and by which scholarship proceeds.

Naven, Or, The Other Self

Author : Michael Houseman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004112209
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Naven, Or, The Other Self written by Michael Houseman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a novel approach to the analysis of ritual action. Founded upon an in-depth study of the transvestism naven ceremony of the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea, it focuses on the relational and interactive forms entailed by ritual performance.