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Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics

by Grant Purzycki, Richard Sosis

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
  • 15.3 x 23.2 x 1.6 cm

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The scientific study of religion has made significant advances in recent decades, explaining how the mind produces religious ideas, the motivations underlying religious behaviour, and the transmission of religious cultures within and across generations. In Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics, Purzycki and Sosis argue that further progress requires integration of isolated research findings on the various components - ritual, supernatural agent belief, myth, taboo, and so forth - that constitute religion. Religions, they contend, need to be understood as adaptive systems. Drawing from a wealth of ethnographic and experimental evidence, they situate religious systems within their local socioecological contexts, showing how religious culture adaptively responds to economic, environmental, and human health problems, as well as costly threats to cooperation and reproduction. Based in the evolutionary, cognitive, and anthropological sciences, Religion Evolving offers a holistic approach that attends to the complex, interacting features of religious systems.
Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics and Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics
Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological DynamicsReligion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics
  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Equinox Publishing (UK)

  • Published

    January 2022

  • Weight

    386g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 23.2 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781800500525

  • ISBN-10

    1800500521

  • Eden Code

    5668662

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