Conversations and controversies in the scientific study of religion : collaborative and co-authored essays by Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe / edited by Luther H. Martin, Donald Wiebe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martin, Luther H., 1937- editor.

Wiebe, Donald, editor.

Series:

Supplements to Method & theory in the study of religion ; Volume 5.

Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 2214-3270 ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe together have spent the better part of a century exploring possibilities for a scientific study of religion. The following essays are a record of their conversations together and of their conversations and controversies with a number of leading scholars in religious studies that address that possibility. As with any scientific endeavor, knowledge advances when research assumptions and experimental designs are collegially discussed and critically assessed. It is hoped that these essays might provide the occasion for scholars in the field to discuss the theoretical and methodological issues they have raised, to debate and expand upon them, or, in the spirit of forthright scientific inquiry, to refute the arguments they have made.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe

Introduction / Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe

A Rationale for a Change of Name for the International Association for the History of Religions / Donald Wiebe and Luther H. Martin

The Study of Religion in its Social-Scientific Context: A Perspective on the 1989 Warsaw Conference on Methodology / E.Thomas Lawson , Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe

On Declaring war: A Critical Comment / Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe

On Making Peace: A Critical Reply to Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe / Ursula King

On Declaring Peace: Another Critical Comment / Ninian Smart

Establishing a Beachhead: naasr, Twenty Years Later / Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe

Pseudo-Speciation of the Human Race: Religions as Hazard-Precaution Systems / Donald Wiebe

The Ecology of Threat Detection and Precautionary Response from the Perspectives of Evolutionary Psychology, Cognitive Science and Historiography: The Case of the Roman Cults of Mithras / Luther H. Martin

Religion, Fear, and Disgust: A Comment on Martin and Wiebe / Ilkka Pyysiäinen

The Prospects and Pitfalls of ‘Just-So’ Storytelling in Evolutionary Accounts of Religion / Gabriel Levy

Response to Donald Wiebe, “Religions as Hazard-Precaution Systems,” and Luther Martin, “The Ecology of Threat Detection and Precautionary Response”: Trying to Explain Religion (Again) / Lluis Oviedo

Why Is Religion Characterized by Excess and Non-Functionality? / Uffe Schjoedt

The Scientific Study of Religion: Two Case Studies, One Response / Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe

Pro- and Assortative-Sociality in the Formation and Maintenance of Religious Groups / Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe

Beyond “Prosocial” / Luke W. Galen

No Global Kumbayah Implied: Religious Prosociality as an Inherently Parochial Phenomenon / Erik M. Lund , Maxine B. Najle , Ben K.L. Ng and Will M. Gervais

On the Dark Side of Religion and Other Forms of Impression Management / Benjamin Grant Purzycki

Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing / Matt J. Rossano

Selective Reading and Selectionist Thinking: Why Violence Has Been, and Should Be, Important to the Cognitive Science of Religion / John H. Shaver and Richard Sosis

Religion, Prosociality, Assortative Sociality, and the Evolution of Large-Scale Cooperation: A Few Remarks on Martin and Wiebe / Paulo Sousa and Karolina Prochownik

Religious Prosociality, Experimental and Historical Conundrums: Continuing the Conversation / Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe

Milestone or Millstone? Does the Book Live Up to the Hype? / Donald Wiebe

Great Expectations for Ara Norenzayan’s Big Gods / Luther H. Martin

Religious Studies as a Scientific Discipline: The Persistence of a Delusion / Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe

Editor’s Introduction to the Discussion / David Zbíral

Is an Unbiased Science of Religion Impossible? / Hans Gerald Hödl

The Study of Religion as a Scientific Discipline: A Comment on Luther Martin and Donald Wiebe’s Paper / Hubert Seiwart

A Scientific Discipline: The Persistence of a Delusion? / Radek Kundt

Rethinking the Relationship between the Study of Religions, Theology and Religious Concerns: A Response to Some Aspects of Wiebe’s and Martin’s Paper / Tomáš Bubík.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-31045-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004310452 DOI