Religion in the emergence of civilization : Çatalhöyük as a case study / edited by Ian Hodder.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hodder, Ian, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neolithic period--Turkey--Konya İli.

Neolithic period.

Religion, Prehistoric--Turkey--Konya İli.

Religion, Prehistoric.

Çatal Mound (Turkey).

Konya İli (Turkey)--Antiquities.

Konya İli (Turkey).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 360 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents an interdisciplinary study of the role of spirituality and religious ritual in the emergence of complex societies. Involving an eminent group of natural scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and theologians, this volume examines Çatalhöyük as a case study. A nine-thousand-year old town in central Turkey, Çatalhöyük was first excavated in the 1960s and has since become integral to understanding the symbolic and ritual worlds of the early farmers and village-dwellers in the Middle East. It is thus an ideal location for exploring theories about the role of religion in early settled life. This book provides a unique overview of current debates concerning religion and its historical variations. Through exploration of themes including the integration of the spiritual and the material, the role of belief in religion, the cognitive bases for religion, and religion's social roles, this book situates the results from Çatalhöyük within a broader understanding of the Neolithic in the Middle East.

Contents:

Probing religion at Çatalhöyük : an interdisciplinary experiment / Ian Hodder

The symbolism of Çatalhöyük in its regional context / Ian Hodder and Lynn Meskell

Spiritual entanglement : transforming religious symbols at Çatalhöyük / LeRon Shults

Coding the nonvisible : epiestemic limitations and understanding symbolic behavior at Çatalhöyük / J. Wentzel van Huyssteen

Modes of religiosity at Çatalhöyük / Harvey Whitehouse and Ian Hodder

is there religion at Çatalhöyük

or are there just houses? / Maurice Bloch

History houses : a new interpretation of architectural elaboration at Çatalhöyük / Ian Hodder and Peter Pels

Marked, absent, habitual : approaches to Neolithic religion at Çatalhöyük / Webb Keane

Temporalities of "religion" at Çatalhöyük / Peter Pels

The Neolithic cosmos of Çatalhöyük / Paul K. Wason

Magical depsoits at Çatalhöyük : a matter of time and place? / Carolyn Nakamura

Conclusions and evaluations / Ian Hodder.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Feb 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-99358-7

1-107-21405-X

1-282-96660-X

9786612966606

0-511-76141-4

0-511-99139-8

0-511-99040-5

0-511-98859-1

0-511-99238-6

0-511-98679-3

OCLC:

700920231