Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture: Image and Word in the Mind of Narrative (Religion, Cognition and Culture) - Couverture souple

Geertz, Armin W.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845532953 ISBN 13 : 9781845532956

Editeur : Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

'Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture' brings together some of the world's leading scholars in the fields of cognitive science and comparative religion. The essays range across diverse fields: the neurological processes and possible genetic foundations of how language emerged; the possible phylogenetic routes in the development of language and culture; the complex interrelations between the ontogenesis and the sociogenesis of cognitive processes; the value of a combination of neurology, narratology and a reworked speech-act approach that focuses on narrative; how the psychology of ritual helps make narrative beliefs possible; religious narratives; emotional communication; the role of gossip as religious narrative; area studies of religious narrative and cognition in the Bible; Indian Epic literature; Australian Aboriginal mythology and ritual; modern religious forms such as New Age, Asatro, astrological narrative and virtual rituals in cyberspace.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Armin W. Geertz is Professor in the History of Religions at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He is editor of several monograph series, the author of over 300 publications and is on the editorial board of many leading journals in the academic study of religion. Recent books include New Approaches in the Study of Religion, edited together with Peter Antes and Randi Warne, (Berlin 2004): Volume 1: Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches, Volume 2: Textual, Comparative, Sociological, and Cognitive Approaches. Jeppe Sinding Jensen is Associate Professor in the Study of Religion, University of Aarhus, Denmark. His publications include Rationality and the Study of Religion (Routledge 2002, with Luther H. Martin), The Study of Religion in a New Key (Aarhus University Press 2003), Syncretism in Religion: A Reader (Equinox, 2004, with Anita Leopold) and Myths and Mythologies: A Reader (Equinox, 2009).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845532953
• ISBN 13: 9781845532956
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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