Intentional systems theory as a conceptual framework for religious studies: a scientific method for studying beliefs
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lewiston, N.Y. [u.a.]
Edwin Mellen Press
c2010
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Science of Religion
/ Systems theory
/ Religiosity
/ Conception
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| Further subjects: | B
Intentionality (Philosophy)
B Religion Methodology B System theory |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-126) and index. - Intentional systems theory and the empirical study of religion -- Intentional systems and common sense -- Intentional systems in the works of Durkheim, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard -- Amazonian folk religion -- Theory of intentional systems -- Systems thinking -- Composition of intentional systems -- Structure of intentional systems -- Belief as a theoretical and functional entity -- Religious intentional systems -- Religious contents and their dynamics -- Hallmark of religious contents -- Gods in flabbergast, a constructed religion -- Cultural models as systems of contents -- Dynamics of contents : tradition ecology -- Tradition ecology and illness models -- Rationality as systemic property -- Rationality as a precondition of ethnographic descriptions -- Rationality as an explanatory principle -- Rationality and religious games -- Rationality and critical study of religion -- Navigating in the world of uncertainty -- Possible worlds -- Cultural models of time -- Playing against Yashingo -- Playing against technological risks -- Playing against market forces -- Playing against superior beings in archaic and modern societies -- Imposing the features of religions into other cultural systems -- Concepts of boundary and sacred -- Intentional systems and boundaries -- Foundations and uses of boundaries -- Sacred as a boundary that involves supernatural entities |
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| ISBN: | 0773414126 |