The Fracture Of An Illusion : Science and the Dissolution of Religion - Frankfurt Templeton Lectures 2008
Pascal. Boyer
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Gottingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, , 2010.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (113 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; 1. Is there such a thing as religion?; The Kant-Darwin Axis; Religions without doctrines; No "religion" in most cultures; Who invented religion?; Religions as brands; Does the study of religion need "religion"?; An uncertain and unnecessary concept; 2. What is natural in religions?; Natural religionasatheory; What is thephenomenon?; The cognitive picture - supernatural concepts; Why are supernatural concepts culturally stable?; The cognitive picture - non-physical agency; Natural religion is not (just) for the primitive Other. - Probabilistic, experience-distant modelWhat makes religious notions culturally viable; 3. Do religions make people better?; Humans are "prosocial"; Apparently, morality could not possibly evolve; Models of commitment; Could "religion" be a form of prosocial signaling?; So why are superhuman agents also moral enforcers?; Epilogue; 4. Is there a religious experience?; Why bother with experience?; Who invented "religious experience"?; Monks and magnets; Rituals: a real (and most common) form of religious experience . .; Ritualized behavior and precaution systems; What about collective "rituals"?. - Religion and experience redux5. Are religions against reason and freedom?; A recapitulation of natural religious elements; Understanding religious cognition without "belief"; Religion is not the sleep of reason; The troubled consciousness of modern religions; Two escape routes - fundamentalism and "spirituality"; No need for "science and religion" or different "magisteria"; Two varieties of Enlightenment; Misleading policies: the specificity of "religion"; Political psychology and secularization; Epilogue - fracture of an illusion; Afterword; Bibliography. - Hauptbeschreibung Eine herausragende Entwicklung im Dialog zwischen Biologie und Theologie besteht in der Erforschung der kognitiven und evolutionären Grundlagen der Religion. Wachsendes Interesse gilt gegenwärtig der positiven Funktion der Religion im Zusammenhang der Evolution und der Ausbildung menschlicher Kultur. Hat die Religion Bedeutung für evolutionäre Anpassungsprozesse? Gibt es eine biologische oder evolutionäre Basis für den religiösen Glauben und die religiöse Lebenspraxis? Falls dies zutrifft: Bestünde darin die Grundlage für eine neue »Wissenschaft« der Religion? Mit
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| ISBN | 3525569408. - 9783525569405
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