Cognitive Approaches To Ancient Religious Experience
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Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience
Author | : Esther Eidinow,Armin W. Geertz,John North |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2022-08-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781316515334 |
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Explores the religious rituals and beliefs of ancient Greece and Rome, using modern research into human cognition to better understand the experiences of men and women. Integrates literary, epigraphic, visual and archaeological evidence. Accessible to those without prior knowledge either of cognitive theory or of the ancient world.
Senses Cognition and Ritual Experience in the Roman World
Author | : Blanka Misic,Abigail Graham |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2024-01-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781009355551 |
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How do the senses shape the way we perceive, understand, and remember ritual experiences? This book applies cognitive and sensory approaches to Roman rituals, reconnecting readers with religious experiences as members of an embodied audience. These approaches allow us to move beyond the literate elites to examine broader audiences of diverse individuals, who experienced rituals as participants and/or performers. Case studies of ritual experiences from a variety of places, spaces, and contexts across the Roman world, including polytheistic and Christian rituals, state rituals, private rituals, performances, and processions, demonstrate the dynamic and broad-scale application that cognitive approaches offer for ancient religion, paving the way for future interdisciplinary engagement. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
The Roman Mithras Cult
Author | : Olympia Panagiotidou,Roger Beck |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2017-11-02 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9781472567406 |
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The Roman Mithras Cult: A Cognitive Approach is the first full cognitive history of an ancient religion. In this groundbreaking book on one of the most intriguing and mysterious ancient religions, Roger Beck and Olympia Panagiotidou show how cognitive historiography can supplement our historical knowledge and deepen our understanding of past cultural phenomenon. The cult of the sun god Mithras, which spread widely across the Greco-Roman world at the same time as other 'mystery cults' and Christianity, offered to its devotees certain images and assumptions about reality. Initiation into the mysteries of Mithras and participation in the life of the cult significantly affected and transformed the ways in which the initiated perceived themselves, the world, and their position within it. The cult's major ideas were conveyed mainly through its major symbolic complexes. The ancient written testimonies and other records are not adequate to establish a definitive reconstruction of Mithraic theologies and the meaning of its complex symbolic structures. Filling this gap, The Roman Mithras Cult: A Cognitive Approach identifies the cognitive and psychological processes which took place in the minds and bodies of the Mithraists during their initiation and participation in the mysteries, enabling the perception, apprehension, and integration of the essential images and assumptions of the cult in its worldview system.
Mind Morality and Magic
Author | : Istvan Czachesz,Risto Uro |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-10-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781317544401 |
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The cognitive science of religion that has emerged over the last twenty years is a multidisciplinary field that often challenges established theories in anthropology and comparative religion. This new approach raises many questions for biblical studies as well. What are the cross-cultural cognitive mechanisms which explain the transmission of biblical texts? How did the local and particular cultural traditions of ancient Israel and early Christianity develop? What does the embodied and socially embedded nature of the human mind imply for the exegesis of biblical texts? "Mind, Morality and Magic" draws on a range of approaches to the study of the human mind - including memory studies, computer modeling, cognitive theories of ritual, social cognition, evolutionary psychology, biology of emotions, and research on religious experience. The volume explores how cognitive approaches to religion can shed light on classical concerns in biblical scholarship - such as the transmission of traditions, ritual and magic, and ethics - as well as uncover new questions and offer new methodologies.
Mind Morality and Magic
Author | : Istvan Czachesz,Risto Uro |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-10-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781317544418 |
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The cognitive science of religion that has emerged over the last twenty years is a multidisciplinary field that often challenges established theories in anthropology and comparative religion. This new approach raises many questions for biblical studies as well. What are the cross-cultural cognitive mechanisms which explain the transmission of biblical texts? How did the local and particular cultural traditions of ancient Israel and early Christianity develop? What does the embodied and socially embedded nature of the human mind imply for the exegesis of biblical texts? "Mind, Morality and Magic" draws on a range of approaches to the study of the human mind - including memory studies, computer modeling, cognitive theories of ritual, social cognition, evolutionary psychology, biology of emotions, and research on religious experience. The volume explores how cognitive approaches to religion can shed light on classical concerns in biblical scholarship - such as the transmission of traditions, ritual and magic, and ethics - as well as uncover new questions and offer new methodologies.
Understanding Greek Religion
Author | : Jennifer Lynn Larson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : 0415688469 |
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What is ancient Greek religion? This book eschews an Athenocentric view of Greek religion, moving away from a false picture of uniformity and addressing other parts of the Greek world whose particularities are often ignored. It offers students an overview of core ideas, giving them the conceptual tools for understanding the actions and beliefs that constitute a religion, and also grounds them in the evidence of material culture as well as written sources. It provides contextualizing introductions to key topics, illustrating these with case studies. Illustrated with maps, drawings and images, it provides an insightful and revealing overview of Greek religion.
Evolution Cognition and the History of Religion A New Synthesis
Author | : Anders Klostergaard Petersen,Gilhus Ingvild Sælid,Luther H. Martin,Jeppe Sinding Jensen,Jesper Sørensen |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 702 |
Release | : 2018-10-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004385375 |
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Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis comprises 41 chapters that push for a new way of conducting the study of religion, thereby, transforming the discipline into a genuine science of religion. The recent resurgence of evolutionary approaches on culture and the increasing acknowledgement in the natural and social sciences of culture’s and religion’s evolutionary importance calls for a novel epistemological and theoretical framework for studying these two areas. The chapters explore how a new scholarly synthesis, founded on the triadic space constituted by evolution, cognition, cultural and ecological environment, may develop. Different perspectives and themes relating to this overarching topic are taken up with a main focus on either evolution, cognition, and/or the history of religion.
Religious Experience Reconsidered
Author | : Ann Taves |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2011-10-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780691140889 |
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Annotation Ann Taves addresses the subject of religious experience directly and the problems of reductionism and humanistic fears of the sciences indirectly and by example. The orientation of this book is practical more than philosophical.