Religious Evolution and the Axial Age: From Shamans to Priests to Prophets
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Figures and Tables -- Prologue -- Chapter 1: What Religion Is -- Defining religion -- Spirits and gods -- Religious rituals -- Religious specialists -- Chapter 2: The Evolutionary Forms of the Relig...
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| Language: | English |
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation Ser
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Sanderson, Stephen K: Religious Evolution and the Axial Age : From Shamans to Priests to Prophets. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,c2018. - 9781350047426 |
| Summary: | Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Figures and Tables -- Prologue -- Chapter 1: What Religion Is -- Defining religion -- Spirits and gods -- Religious rituals -- Religious specialists -- Chapter 2: The Evolutionary Forms of the Religious Life -- Types of religion -- The way of the shaman -- Communal rites and practices -- Pagan religions of the ancient world -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3: The Religions of the Axial Age -- The great transformation -- Zoroastrianism -- Judaism -- Christianity -- Confucianism and Daoism -- Hinduism -- Buddhism -- Between East and West -- Excursus: monotheism among the Greeks? -- What was new in the Axial Age? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Explaining Religion -- Religion as the worship of society -- Religion as the opium of the people -- Religion as a source of scarce or nonexistent rewards -- Religion as a source of ontological security -- Religion as how the brain works -- Chapter 5: Religion as an Evolutionary Adaptation -- Evolutionary adaptationists -- Deconstructing adaptationism -- Evidence of adaptation: religion in the ancestral environment -- Evidence of adaptation: religion and health -- Evidence of adaptation: religion and reproductive success -- Evidence of adaptation: childrenâs natural theism -- Evidence of adaptation: biological roots of religious ritual -- Evidence of adaptation: religionâs widespread importance -- Conclusions -- Chapter 6: The Sociocultural Evolution of Religion, 1: The Overall Pattern -- Darwinian cultural evolution and its problems -- Historical theories of sociocultural evolution -- Necessary causes of religious evolution -- Conclusions -- Chapter 7: The Sociocultural Evolution of Religion, 2: The Axial Age -- Earlier theories -- Recent theories A new interpretation: urbanization, war, and disrupted attachments -- Toward an empirical test -- Theoretical reprise -- Chapter 8: Religion Past, Present, and Future -- Do religions progress? -- Why atheism? -- The future of religion -- Coda: is God a delusion? -- Appendix A: Codes for Stage of Religious Evolution in the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample -- Appendix B: Ancient Cities and Estimated City Sizes -- Notes -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Bibliography |
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| ISBN: | 1350047430 |