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Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture (Hardcover, New)
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Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture (Hardcover, New)
Series: Religion, Cognition and Culture
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Attempts to understand the origins of humanity have raised
fundamental questions about the complex relationship between
cognition and culture. Central to the debates on origins is the
role of religion, religious ritual and religious experience. What
came first: individual religious (ecstatic) experiences, collective
observances of transition situations, fear of death, ritual
competence, magical coercion; mirror neurons or temporal lobe
religiosity? Cognitive scientists are now providing us with
important insights on phylogenetic and ontogenetic processes.
Together with insights from the humanities and social sciences on
the origins, development and maintenance of complex semiotic,
social and cultural systems, a general picture of what is
particularly human about humans could emerge. Reflections on the
preconditions for symbolic and linguistic competence and practice
are now within our grasp. Origins of Religion, Cognition and
Culture puts culture centre stage in the cognitive science of
religion.
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