Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

Talk to a cultural sociologist about human evolution, and you might think that you are talking to a Christian fundamentalist. Culturally sophisticated social scientists—and those who study religion tend to number among them—are historically wary of human evolution, not only for the normative and tel...

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Auteur principal: Guhin, Jeffrey (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Review
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Oxford Univ. Press 2013
Dans: Sociology of religion
Année: 2013, Volume: 74, Numéro: 3, Pages: 416-417
Compte rendu de:Religion in human evolution (Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 2011) (Guhin, Jeffrey)
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Résumé:Talk to a cultural sociologist about human evolution, and you might think that you are talking to a Christian fundamentalist. Culturally sophisticated social scientists—and those who study religion tend to number among them—are historically wary of human evolution, not only for the normative and teleological undertones such talk conveys, but also for the scientistic colonization an evolutionary frame might bring. Sure, such a social scientist might say, evolution's true, but it is not relevant. Since his famous 1964 American Sociological Review article, Robert Bellah has attempted to revive this relevance.
ISSN:1759-8818
Contient:Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srt025