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The Origins of Religion in the Paleolithic (Hardcover)
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The Origins of Religion in the Paleolithic (Hardcover)
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How did religion emerge-and why? What are the links between
behavior, environment, and religiosity? Diving millions of years
into the past, to a time when human ancestors began grappling with
issues of safety, worth, identity, loss, power, and meaning in
complex and difficult environments, Gregory J. Wightman explores
the significance of goal-directed action and the rise of material
culture for the advent of religiosity and ritual. The book opens by
tackling questions of cognitive evolution and group psychology, and
how these ideas can integrate with archaeological evidence such as
stone tools, shell beads, and graves. In turn, it focuses on how
human ancestors engaged with their environments, how those
engagements became routine, and how, eventually, certain routines
took on a recognizably ritualistic flavor. Wightman also critically
examines the very real constraints on drawing inferences about
prehistoric belief systems solely from limited material residues.
Nevertheless, Wightman argues that symbolic objects are not merely
illustrative of religion, but also constitutive of it; in the
continual dance between brain and behavior, between internal and
external environments, lie the seeds of ritual and religion.
Weaving together insights from archaeology; anthropology; cognitive
and cultural neuroscience; history and philosophy of religions; and
evolutionary, social, and developmental psychology, Wightman
provides an intricate, evidence-based understanding of religion's
earliest origins.
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