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This book takes what is often referred to as the "supernatural" to
be normal natural phenomena that are closely linked to the
neurobiology of the human species. Reflecting the neurocultural and
biocultural perspective, the chapters cover phenomena such as
out-of-body experiences, ghosts, and experiences of spirit
entities. The contributors consider the "supernatural" as emerging
from innate neurobiological structures and functions, and
reflecting known neurobiological processes that explain their
universality and persistence.
This book takes what is often referred to as the "supernatural" to
be normal natural phenomena that are closely linked to the
neurobiology of the human species. Reflecting the neurocultural and
biocultural perspective, the chapters cover phenomena such as
out-of-body experiences, ghosts, and experiences of spirit
entities. The contributors consider the "supernatural" as emerging
from innate neurobiological structures and functions, and
reflecting known neurobiological processes that explain their
universality and persistence.
The aim of historical Jesus research is to identify the authentic
material from which the historical figure as a social type
underneath the overlay is constructed. Pieter Craffert's
anthropological historiography offers an alternative framework for
dealing with Jesus of Nazareth as a social personage fully embedded
in a first-century Mediterranean worldview and the Gospels as
cultural artefacts related to this figure. This cross-cultural
model represents a religious pattern that refers to a family of
features for describing those religious entrepreneurs who, based on
regular Altered State of Consciousness experiences, perform a
specific set of social functions in their communities.
Description: Historical Jesus research remains trapped in the
positivistic historiographical framework from which it emerged more
than a hundred and fifty years ago. This is confirmed by the nested
assumptions shared by the majority of researchers. These include
the idea that a historical figure could not have been like the
Gospel portrayals and consequently the Gospels have developed in a
linear and layered fashion from the authentic kernels to the
elaborated literary constructions as they are known today. The aim
of historical Jesus research, therefore, is to identify the
authentic material from which the historical figure as a social
type underneath the overlay is constructed. Anthropological
historiography offers an alternative framework for dealing with
Jesus of Nazareth as a social personage fully embedded in a
first-century Mediterranean worldview and the Gospels as cultural
artifacts related to this figure. The shamanic complex can account
for the cultural processes and dynamics related to his social
personage. This cross-cultural model represents a religious pattern
that refers to a family of features for describing those religious
entrepreneurs who, based on regular Altered State of Consciousness
experiences, perform a specific set of social functions in their
communities. This model accounts for the wide spectrum of the data
ascribed to Jesus of Nazareth while it offers a coherent framework
for constructing the historical Jesus as a social personage
embedded in his worldview. As a Galilean shamanic figure Jesus
typically performed healings and exorcisms, he controlled the
spirits while he also acted as prophet, teacher and mediator of
divine knowledge. Endorsements: ""In this book, Craffert uses the
metaphor of traveling to describe the task he has undertaken. Given
the existence of the two prevailing pathways leading into
contemporary 'historical Jesus' study, Craffert leaves the
century-and-a-half old Schweitzer Street (Schweitzerstrasse) and
Wrede Road (Wredebahn) to do some 'bundubashing' (South African: to
travel off road through remote and rough terrain) to get to the
social personage of Jesus the Galilean. His critique of prevailing
historical Jesus study is insightful and incisive, while his
description of Jesus as first-century Galilean shaman is masterful
and accomplished. His rationale for and realization of a work of
anthropological history is quite on the mark, enabling a reader to
have an encounter with a first-century, Galilean shamanic Jesus
that should produce an appropriate culture shock in those unused to
the radically different cultural and social landscape of
Mediterranean antiquity."" --Bruce J. Malina, author of The New
Testament World ""Just when it seems that all has been said about
the historical Jesus, Pieter Craffert offers a genuine paradigm
shift in method and insights growing out of an
'anthropological-historical' perspective. His interpretation of the
public figure of Jesus using the social-type of a shaman opens up a
new world view and encourages the inclusion of texts, events, and
activities usually dismissed from discussions of the historical
Jesus. His originality is matched by his meticulous research and
the clarity he brings to a complex problem. This is a must-read for
anyone interested in the historical Jesus, but especially for those
who enjoy a genuinely new approach to an old problem."" --William
R. Herzog II, author of Jesus, Justice, and the Reign of God ""
This book] has the rare quality that it helps us to think
'otherwise' about the Historical Jesus. We understand persons with
the help of some category or model that suggests to us what they
were like. The problem with categories used about Jesus is that
they are either too distant historically to provide meaning to
modern readers, or to modern to help us grasp the disturbing
'otherness' about Jesus. Craffert's use of 'shaman' as a social
model for Jesus makes sense of the otherness of Jesus in our own w
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