The fracture of an illusion : science and the dissolution of religion : Frankfurt Templeton Lectures 2008
Pascal Boyer
Bok · Engelsk · 2010
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| Utgitt | Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , 2010
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| Omfang | 112 s.
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| Opplysninger | Lectures presented at the universities of Frankfurt and Gissen in May 2008 , as a part of the Templeton Research Lectures on science and religion.. - Is there such a thing as religion? p. 9 The Kant-Darwin Axis p. 11 Religions without doctrines p. 13 No "religion" in most cultures p. 14 Who invented religion? p. 16 Religions as brands p. 20 Does the study of religion need "religion"? p. 22 An uncertain and unnecessary concept p. 23 What is natural in religions? p. 25 Natural religion as a theory p. 25 What is the phenomenon? p. 26 The cognitive picture - supernatural concepts p. 27 Why are supernatural concepts culturally stable? p. 30 The cognitive picture - non-physical agency p. 32 Natural religion is not (just) for the primitive Other p. 35 Probabilistic, experience-distant model p. 36 What Make religious notions culturally viable p. 37 Do religions make people better? p. 41 Humans are "prosocial" p. 43 Apparently, morality could not possibly evolve p. 44 Models of commitment p. 47 Could "religion" be a form of prosocial signaling? p. 50 So why are superhuman agents also moral enforcers? p. 54 Epilogue p. 55 Is there a religious experience? p. 57 Why bother with experience? p. 57 Who invented "religious experience"? p. 60 Monks and magnets p. 61 Rituals: a real (and most common) form of religious experience p. 63 Ritualized behavior and precaution systems p. 66 What about collective "rituals"? p. 67 Religion and experience redux p. 69 Are religions against reason and freedom? p. 73 A recapitulation of natural religious elements p. 73 Understanding religious cognition without "belief" p. 76 Religion is not the sleep of reason p. 77 The troubled consciousness of modern religions p. 78 Two escape routes - fundamentalism and "spirituality" p. 80 No need for "science and religion" or different "magisterial" p. 85 Two varieties of Enlightenment p. 89 Misleading policies: the specificity of "religion" p. 91 Political psychology and secularization p. 93 Epilogue - fracture of an illusion p. 95 Afterword p. 99 Bibliography p. 105
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| Emner | religion teologi naturvitenskap
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| ISBN | 3525569408. - 9783525569405
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