Contemporary theories of religion : a critical companion

Author(s)

• Stausberg, Michael

Bibliographic Information

Contemporary theories of religion : a critical companion

edited by Michael Stausberg

Routledge, 2009

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• There is life in the old dog yet : an introduction to contemporary theories of religion / Michael Stausberg
• Religion as superhuman agency : on E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley, Rethinking religion (1990) / Steven Engler and Mark Quentin Gardiner
• Anthropomorphism and animism : on Stewart E. Guthrie, Faces in the clouds (1993) / Benson Saler
• From need to violence : on Walter Burkert, Creation of the sacred (1996) / Gustavo Benavides
• Religion as ritual : Roy Rappaport's changing views from Pigs for the ancestors (1968) to Ritual and religion in the making of humanity (1999) / Robert A. Segal
• Religious economies and rational choice : on Rodney Stark and Roger Finke, Acts of faith (2000) / Gregory D. Alles
• Religion as communication : on Niklas Luhmann, The religion of society (2000) / Peter Beyer
• Exotic experience and ordinary life : on Andrew Newberg, Eugene D'Aquili, and Vince Rause, Why God won't go away : brain science and the biology of belief (2001) / Matthew Day
• Religion as the unintended product of brain functions in the 'standard cognitive science of religion model' : on Pascal Boyer, Religion explained (2001) and Ilkka Pyysiäinen, How religion works (2003) / Jeppe Sinding Jensen
• Religion as evolutionary cascade : on Scott Atran, In gods we trust (2002) / Joseph Bulbulia
• Religion as superorganism: on David Sloan Wilson, Darwin's cathedral (2002) / Joseph Bulbulia and Marcus Frean
• Roots in the brain : on David Lewis-Williams and David Pearce, Inside the neolithic mind (2005) / Donald Wiebe
• Boundary maintenance : religions as organic-cultural flows : on Thomas Tweed, Crossing and dwelling (2006) / Aaron W. Hughes
• Theory of religion as myth : on Loyal Rue, Religion is not about God (2005) / Hubert Seiwert
• New atheistic approaches in the cognitive science of religion : on Daniel Dennett, Breaking the spell (2006) and Richard Dawkins, The God delusion (2006) / Armin W. Geertz
• Interventionist practices and the promises of religion : on Martin Riesebrodt, Cultus und heilsversprechen (2007) / Michael Stausberg
• Back and forth / Michael Stausberg

Details

• NCID: BA9180945X
• ISBN:
  • 9780415463461
  • 9780415463478
• LCCN: 2008053371
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: x, 309 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 200
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Religion