Evolutionary processes in the natural history of religion : body, brain, belief / Hansjörg Hemminger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hemminger, Hansjörg, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

New approaches to the scientific study of religion ; 2367-3508 v. 10.

New approaches to the scientific study of religion, 2367-3508 ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--History.

Religion.

History.

Evolution (Biology).

Psychobiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, [2021]

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction

I. Religion through the eyes of a biologist

1. Evolution in all its facets

2. The scientific approach to religion

3. What do we know? What can be known?

4. Understanding religion from the inside

II. About evolutionary biology and the evolution of religion

5. Evolution: The Modern Synthesis

6. Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, epigenetics and the contingency of evolution

7. Gene-culture coevolution

III. Phenomenology of Paleolithic religion

8. A story told backwards

9. The beginning and the end: Pre-human and Neolithic religion

10. Hominin pre-adaptations: Background to the evolution of religion

IV. CSR: The cognitive science of religion

11. Evolutionary psychology and religion

12. Religious fanaticism

13. Practical religion and spirituality

14. Magic, religion and evolutionary ethics

V. Modeling the evolutionary path to culture and religion

15. Multi-level models of religious evolution

16. Conclusion and outlook.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 7, 2021).

ISBN:

9783030704087

3030704084

Publisher Number:

99988640055

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.