Evolutionary, Cognitive, and Contextual Approaches to the Study of Religious Systems: A Proposition of Synthesis

The explanatory gap between the life sciences and the humanities that is present in the study of human phenomena impedes productive interdisciplinary examination that such a complex subject requires. Manifested as epistemological tensions over reductionism vs. holism, nature vs. nurture, and the stu...

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Authors: Lang, Martin (Author) ; Kundt, Radek 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2020]
In: Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 32, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-46
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Kognitive Religionswissenschaft / Religious sociology / Theory of evolution
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AE Psychology of religion
Further subjects:B Religion
B Ritual
B Complex Adaptive Systems
B Evolution
B Cognition
B the humanities and the sciences
B Mechanism
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