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Entering Religious Minds
Author | : Mona Kanwal Sheikh,Mark Juergensmeyer |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2019-07-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780429888885 |
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Led by Mona Kanwal Sheikh and Mark Juergensmeyer, nine authors journey into the worlds of unusual, sometimes violent religious groups. Together, these original first-person contributions provide an integrated, problem-solving approach to field research in religious extremism, illustrating ground-breaking methods in gaining access to their subjects’ worldviews. In a narrative style that is at once both conversational and rigorous, the book demonstrates for students, researchers, and journalists the relevance of religious studies to political science, sociology, and anthropology. It is particularly well suited to upper-level courses at the intersection of religion and the social sciences.
Mind and Religion
Author | : Harvey Whitehouse,Robert N. McCauley |
Publsiher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2005-06-02 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780759114838 |
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Recent cognitive approaches to the study of religion have yielded much understanding by focusing on common psychological processes that all humans share. One leading theory, Harvey WhitehouseOs modes of religiosity theory, demonstrates how two distinct modes of organizing and transmitting religious traditions emerge from different ways of activating universal memory systems. In Mind and Religion, top scholars from biology to religious studies question, test, evaluate and challenge WhitehouseOs sweeping thesis. The result is an up-to-date snapshot of the cognitive science of religion field for classes in psychology, anthropology, or history of religion.
The Philosophy of the Human Mind in Respect to Religion Or A Demonstration
Author | : James Fishback |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1813 |
Genre | : Apologetics |
ISBN | : HARVARD:AH5G9E |
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Guardians of God
Author | : Mona Kanwal Sheikh |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2016-09-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780199089802 |
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This book is an account of the emergence and key events related to the origin and expansion of Pakistani Taliban since 2001, with a focus on the role of religion in their actions, policies and worldviews. The author brings to light rare insight into the ideological basis of Pakistani Taliban, drawing upon first-hand research comprising participant observation, interviews, content analysis of organizational literature and Talibani communications, such as recruitment videos, recorded speeches, leaflets and pamphlets, jihadi anthems and press releases to the local media. The book demonstrates how religion simultaneously appears as an object to be defended, as a threat, as the purpose of violence, as the source of rules and limitations on violent action and as the source of motivational imagery and myths. Going into an analysis of just what role religion plays in violent activities of this group and how does it do so, the author shows that Talibani narratives are both secular and religious at the same time, contradicting a clear-cut divide between religious and secular motivations for violence. The book advocates against extreme positions that accord religion either a primary or a negligent position in explaining the raison d’être of Pakistani Taliban. It makes a plea for more informed and empathetic approach instead of the purely militaristic stance towards extremism, which has only helped it grow in the past.
The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior
Author | : Eckart Voland,Wulf Schiefenhövel |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2009-08-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783642001284 |
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In a Darwinian world, religious behavior - just like other behaviors - is likely to have undergone a process of natural selection in which it was rewarded in the evolutionary currency of reproductive success. This book aims to provide a better understanding of the social scenarios in which selection pressure led to religious practices becoming an evolved human trait, i.e. an adaptive answer to the conditions of living and surviving that prevailed among our prehistoric ancestors. This aim is pursued by a team of expert authors from a range of disciplines. Their contributions examine the relevant physiological, emotional, cognitive and social processes. The resulting understanding of the functional interplay of these processes gives valuable insights into the biological roots and benefits of religion.
The Religious Sentiments of the Human Mind
Author | : Daniel Greenleaf Thompson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : UOM:39015070188837 |
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The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : CORNELL:31924093240343 |
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Religion and the American Mind
Author | : Alan Heimert |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 691 |
Release | : 2006-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781597526142 |
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Exploring the richness of American thought and experience in the mid-eighteenth century, Alan Heimert develops the intellectual and cultural significance of the religious divisions and debates engendered by one of the most critical episodes in American intellectual history, the Great Awakening of the 1740's. The author's concern throughout is to discover what were the essential issues in a dispute that was not so much a controversy between theologians as a vital competition for the ideological allegiance of the American people. This is not a standard history of any one area of ideas. Mr. Heimert's sources include nearly everything published in America from 1735. His study, in its range and conception, is an original contribution to an understanding of the relationship between colonial religious thought and the evolution of American history.