Religious narrative, cognition, and culture : image and word in the mind of narrative / edited by Armin W. Geertz and Jeppe Sinding Jensen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Geertz, Armin W., 1948-

Jensen, Jeppe Sinding, 1951-

Series:

Religion, cognition and culture

Religion, cognition, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Culture.

Cognition.

Physical Description:

x, 336 pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub. Ltd., 2010.

Summary:

Scholars of religion and social science consider religion as an expression of cognitive mechanisms that are both biological and social, and that reveal themselves through culture. They examine the formative effect that various kinds of cultural knowledge--in narratives, classificatory systems, rituals, institutions, and everyday practice--may have on how minds are made and how they work. They cover theoretical perspectives, level of explanatory interpretation, and cognitive approaches to the study of religious narratives. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction / Armin W. Geertz & Jeppe Sinding Jensen

Theoretical perspectives

Religious narrative, cognition, and culture : approaches and definitions / Armin W. Geertz

Framing religious narrative, cognition, and culture theoretically / Jeppe Sinding Jensen

Levels of explanatory interpretation

Language as an emergent function : some radical neurological and evolutionary implications / Jeppe Sinding Jensen

The first hybrid minds on earth / Merlin Donald

Iconology and imagination : explorations in sociogenetic economies / Chris Sinha

The nature of narrative : schemes, genes, memes, dreams, and screams! / Rukmini Bhaya Nair

Believing and doing : ritual action enhances religious belief / Ilkka Pyysiinen

Cognitive approaches to the study of religious narratives

/ Pumping intuitions: religious narratives and emotional communication / Tom Sjblom

Moses and the invasion of the body snatchers : Durkheim, cognition, and deuteronomy / Hans Jurgen Lundager Jensen

Fantastic re-collection : cultural vs. autobiographical memory in the Exodus narrative / Laura Feldt

Parables, cognitive shock, and spontaneous exegetical reflection / Douglas L. Gragg

Icons and agency in the Georgian Orthodox Church / Anders Nielsen

Towards a socio-cognitive approach to religious text : a case study inIndian epic literature / James M. Hegarty

Pole position : space, narrative, and religion / Anders Lisdorf

Narrativity in view of a theory of syncretism / Anita Maria Leopold

The salience and relevance of modern Icelandic SATR : a preliminary case study in the immunology of culture / Gumundur Ingi Markisson

Baby in a bowl and other stories : socialization in astrological narrative / Kirstine Munk

To meet without actually meeting : cultural models of virtual rituals in 3d cyberspace / Kenneth Hansen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1845532953

9781845532949

1845532945

9781845532956

OCLC:

435800588

Publisher Number:

99946502983