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Science and Religious Anthropology
Author | : Dr Wesley J Wildman |
Publsiher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2013-05-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781409478355 |
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Science and Religious Anthropology explores the convergence of the biological sciences, human sciences, and humanities around a spiritually evocative, naturalistic vision of human life. The disciplinary contributions are at different levels of complexity, from evolution of brains to existential longings, and from embodied sociality to ecosystem habitat. The resulting interpretation of the human condition supports some aspects of traditional theological thinking in the world's religious traditions while seriously challenging other aspects. Wesley Wildman draws out these implications for philosophical and religious anthropology and argues that the modern secular interpretation of humanity is most compatible with a religious form of naturalistic humanism. This book resists the reduction of meaning and value questions while taking scientific theories about human life with full seriousness. It argues for a religious interpretation of human beings as bodily creatures emerging within a natural environment that permits engagement with the valuational potentials of reality. This engagement promotes socially borne spiritual quests to realize and harmonize values in everything human beings do, from the forging of cultures to the crafting of personal convictions.
Science and Religious Anthropology
Author | : Wesley J. Wildman |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2016-04-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781317059080 |
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Science and Religious Anthropology explores the convergence of the biological sciences, human sciences, and humanities around a spiritually evocative, naturalistic vision of human life. The disciplinary contributions are at different levels of complexity, from evolution of brains to existential longings, and from embodied sociality to ecosystem habitat. The resulting interpretation of the human condition supports some aspects of traditional theological thinking in the world's religious traditions while seriously challenging other aspects. Wesley Wildman draws out these implications for philosophical and religious anthropology and argues that the modern secular interpretation of humanity is most compatible with a religious form of naturalistic humanism. This book resists the reduction of meaning and value questions while taking scientific theories about human life with full seriousness. It argues for a religious interpretation of human beings as bodily creatures emerging within a natural environment that permits engagement with the valuational potentials of reality. This engagement promotes socially borne spiritual quests to realize and harmonize values in everything human beings do, from the forging of cultures to the crafting of personal convictions.
Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes
Author | : Samuli Schielke,Liza Debevec |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2012-06-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780857455079 |
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Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be. Rather than putting everyday practice and normative doctrine on different analytical planes, the authors argue that the articulation of religious doctrine is also an everyday practice and must be understood as such.
Religion and Science as Forms of Life
Author | : Carles Salazar,Joan Bestard |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2015-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781782384892 |
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The relationships between science and religion are about to enter a new phase in our contemporary world, as scientific knowledge has become increasingly relevant in ordinary life, beyond the institutional public spaces where it traditionally developed. The purpose of this volume is to analyze the relationships, possible articulations and contradictions between religion and science as forms of life: ways of engaging human experience that originate in particular social and cultural formations. Contributions use this theoretical and ethnographic research to explore different scientific and religious cultures in the contemporary world.
Religion Anthropology and Cognitive Science
Author | : Harvey Whitehouse,James Laidlaw |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Cognition and culture |
ISBN | : UOM:39015074080725 |
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This book examines longstanding debates in the anthropology of religion concerning the connections between ritual and meaning, belief, politics, emotion, development, and gender. But it examines these 'old' topics from a radically new perspective: that of the cognitive science of religion. As such the volume identifies potential solutions to established problems but it also sets out a program for future research in the field. The volume includes a substantial introduction from Harvey Whitehouse and James Laidlaw who highlight the connections between key issues in the history of religious anthropology and the latest findings of scientific psychology. This volume, they argue, presents us with potential solutions to old problems but also with a series of new and exciting challenges. This book is part of the Ritual Studies Monograph Series, edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh. "The introduction and endpapers by the editors, which detail these positions, are excellent; the papers in between, which explore the relation of EP to the thought of Malinowski, Durkheim, and other seminal anthropological scholars of religion, are likewise first rate... Highly recommended." -- C.S. Peebles, Indiana University-Bloomington, CHOICE Magazine
Science and Faith
Author | : Eric Lawrence Gans |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2015-11 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1934542520 |
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Science and Religion in India
Author | : Renny Thomas |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2021-12-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781000534313 |
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This book provides an in-depth ethnographic study of science and religion in the context of South Asia, giving voice to Indian scientists and shedding valuable light on their engagement with religion. Drawing on biographical, autobiographical, historical, and ethnographic material, the volume focuses on scientists’ religious life and practices, and the variety of ways in which they express them. Renny Thomas challenges the idea that science and religion in India are naturally connected and argues that the discussion has to go beyond binary models of ‘conflict’ and ‘complementarity’. By complicating the understanding of science and religion in India, the book engages with new ways of looking at these categories.
Magic Science and Religion and Other Essays
Author | : Bronislaw Malinowski |
Publsiher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2014-04-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781473393127 |
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This book contains three prolific essays by the world renown polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. First published in 1926, Magic, Science and Religion provides its readers with a seminal collection of texts exploring the concepts of magic, religion, science, rite and myth, detailing how they interlink to offer exciting and informative insights into the Trobrianders of New Guinea. A must-have for any students of anthropology and collectors of Malinowski’s work, we are republishing this classic work with a new introductory biography of the author.