An Unnatural History of Religions

An Unnatural History of Religions
Author: Leonardo Ambasciano
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2018-12-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781350062405

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An Unnatural History of Religions examines the origins, development, and critical issues concerning the history of religion and its relationship with science. The book explores the ideological biases, logical fallacies, and unwarranted beliefs that surround the scientific foundations (or lack thereof) in the academic discipline of the history of religions, positioning them in today's 'post-truth' culture. Leonardo Ambasciano provides the necessary critical background to evaluate the most important theories and working concepts dedicated to the explanation of the historical developments of religion. He covers the most important topics and paradigm shifts in the field, such as phenomenology, postmodernism, and cognitive science. These are taken into consideration chronologically, each time with case studies on topics such as shamanism, gender biases, ethnocentrism, and biological evolution. Ambasciano argues that the roots of post-truth may be deep in human biases, but that historical justifications change each time, resulting in different combinations. The surprising rise of once-fringe beliefs, such as conspiracy theories, pseudoscientific claims, and so-called scientific creationism, demonstrates the alarming influence that post-truth ideas may exert on both politics and society. Recognising them before they spread anew may be the first step towards a scientifically renewed study of religion.

An Unnatural History of Religions

An Unnatural History of Religions
Author: Leonardo Ambasciano
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1350062413

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Preface: Ghosts, post-truth despair, and Brandolini's Law -- An incoherent contradiction -- The deep history of comparison -- The Darwinian road not taken -- Goodbye science -- Eliadology -- The demolition of the status quo -- The cognitive (r)evolution: the end? -- Epilogue: The night of pseudoscience.

Academic Study of Religions in a Cognitive Anthropological and Sociological Perspective

Academic Study of Religions in a Cognitive  Anthropological and Sociological Perspective
Author: Tomáš Bubík,Jakub Havlíček,Silvie Kotherová,Dušan Lužný,Rudolf Havelka
Publsiher: Palacký University Olomouc
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2021
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9788024460130

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The book deals with current issues of the study of religion as an academic discipline, especially cognitive, anthropological and sociological research of religious thought and behaviour. Publikace pojednává o aktuálních problémech religionistiky jako akademické disciplíny, zejména pak o kognitivním, antropologickém a sociologickém výzkumu náboženského myšlení a chování.

The Study of Greek and Roman Religions

The Study of Greek and Roman Religions
Author: Nickolas P. Roubekas
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2022-07-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781350102620

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How should ancient religious ideas be approached? Is "religion" an applicable term to antiquity? Should classicists, ancient historians, and religious studies scholars work more closely together? Nickolas P. Roubekas argues that there is a disciplinary gap between the study of Greek and Roman religions and the study of “religion” as a category-a gap that has often resulted in contradictory conclusions regarding Greek and Roman religion. This book addresses this lack of interdisciplinarity by providing an overview, criticism, and assessment of this chasm. It provides a theoretical approach to this historical period, raising the issue of the relationship between “theory of religion” and “history of religion,” and explores how history influences theory and vice versa. It also presents an in-depth critique of some crucial problems that have been central to the discussions of scholars who work on Graeco-Roman antiquity, encouraging us to re-examine how we approach the study of ancient religions.

Lure of the Sinister

Lure of the Sinister
Author: Gareth Medway
Publsiher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2001-04
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780814756454

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Draws on various sources of information from newspapers to pulp literature to examine the history of demonology, or Satanism.

Managed Annihilation

Managed Annihilation
Author: Dean Bavington
Publsiher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780774859509

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The Newfoundland and Labrador cod fishery was once the most successful commercial fishery in the world. When it collapsed in 1992, many pointed to failures in management, such as uncontrolled harvesting, as likely culprits. Managed Annihilation makes the case that the idea of natural resource management itself was the problem. The collapse occurred when the fisheries were state-managed and still, two decades later, there is no recovery in sight. Although the collapse raised doubts among policy-makers about their ability to understand and control nature, their ultimate goal of control through management has not wavered and has been transferred from wild fish to fishermen and farmed cod.

Religion and Its Monsters

Religion and Its Monsters
Author: Timothy Beal
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2014-02-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781135283483

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Religion's great and powerful mystery fascinates us, but it also terrifies. So too the monsters that haunt the stories of the Judeo-Christian mythos and earlier traditions: Leviathan, Behemoth, dragons, and other beasts. In this unusual and provocative book, Timothy K. Beal writes about the monsters that lurk in our religious texts, and about how monsters and religion are deeply entwined. Horror and faith are inextricable. Ans as monsters are part of religious texts and traditions, so religion lurks in the modern horror genre, from its birth in Dante's Inferno to the contemporary spookiness of H.P. Lovecraft and the Hellraiser films. Religion and Its Monsters is essential reading for students of religion and popular culture, as well as any readers with an interest in horror.

Hunger

Hunger
Author: Sharman Apt Russell
Publsiher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2008-08-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780786722396

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Every day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger explores the range of this primal experience. Sharman Apt Russell, the highly acclaimed author of Anatomy of a Rose and An Obsession with Butterflies, here takes us on a tour of hunger, from eighteen hours without food to thirty-six hours to seven days and beyond. What Russell finds-both in our bodies and in cultures around the world-is extraordinary. It is a biological process that transcends nature to shape the very of fabric of societies. In a fascinating survey of centuries of thought on hunger's unique power, she discovers an ability to adapt to it that is nothing short of miraculous. From the fasting saints of the early Christian church to activists like Mahatma Gandhi, generations have used hunger to make spiritual and political statements. Russell highlights these remarkable cases where hunger can inspire and even heal, but she also addresses the devastating impact of starvation on cultures around the world today. Written with consummate skill, a compassionate heart, and stocked with facts, figures, and fascinating lore, Hunger is an inspiring window on history and the human spirit.