The Evolution of Religions: A History of Related Traditions
This extraordinarily ambitious and comprehensive book demonstrates how evolutionary theory can yield new insight into the development of organized religion. Lance Grande examines the growth and diversification of hundreds of religions over time, highlighting their historical interrelationships.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Columbia University Press
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
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| Summary: | This extraordinarily ambitious and comprehensive book demonstrates how evolutionary theory can yield new insight into the development of organized religion. Lance Grande examines the growth and diversification of hundreds of religions over time, highlighting their historical interrelationships. Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface: A Modern Evolutionary Approach to History of Religion Studies -- Introductory Section: Applying Evolutionary Theory and Philosophy to Aspects of Human Culture -- 1. Religions, Classification, and Phylogenetic Pattern -- 2. Explaining Hypothetical Patterns with Evolutionary Process Theory -- Main Section: The Historical Diversification (Evolution) of Religions -- 3. Early Supernaturalism and the Development of Organized Religion -- 4. Indigenous Eastern Organized Religion and Asian Cyclicism -- 5. Afro-Euro-Mediterranean Organized Religion, Beginning with Old World Hard Polytheism -- 6. Linear Monotheism -- 7. The Early Diversification of Abrahamic Monotheism -- 8. Traditional Christianity -- 9. Reformation Christianity -- 10. Biblical Demiurgism: A Subgroup of "Gnosticism" -- 11. Islam -- Summary Section: Four Historical Trends in the Evolution of Religions and Considerations for the Future of Humanity -- 12. Organized Religions and the Evolution of Human Society -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary of Select Terms -- Notes -- Chapter Citations -- References -- Figure Credits -- Subject Index. |
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| ISBN: | 0231559313 |