The emergence and evolution of religion by means of natural selection
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書誌事項
The emergence and evolution of religion by means of natural selection
(Evolutionary analysis in the social sciences / a series edited by Jonathan Turner and Kevin J. McCaffree)
Routledge, 2018
- : pbk
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  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
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注記
Other authors: Alexandra Maryanski, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Armin W. Geertz
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-280) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Written by leading theorists and empirical researchers, this book presents new ways of addressing the old question: Why did religion first emerge and then continue to evolve in all human societies? The authors of the book-each with a different background across the social sciences and humanities-assimilate conceptual leads and empirical findings from anthropology, evolutionary biology, evolutionary sociology, neurology, primate behavioral studies, explanations of human interaction and group dynamics, and a wide range of religious scholarship to construct a deeper and more powerful explanation of the origins and subsequent evolutionary development of religions than can currently be found in what is now vast literature. While explaining religion has been a central question in many disciplines for a long time, this book draws upon a much wider array of literature to develop a robust and cross-disciplinary analysis of religion. The book remains true to its subtitle by emphasizing an array of both biological and sociocultural forms of selection dynamics that are fundamental to explaining religion as a universal institution in human societies. In addition to Darwinian selection, which can explain the biology and neurology of religion, the book outlines a set of four additional types of sociocultural natural selection that can fill out the explanation of why religion first emerged as an institutional system in human societies, and why it has continued to evolve over the last 300,000 years of societal evolution. These sociocultural forms of natural selection are labeled by the names of the early sociologists who first emphasized them, and they can be seen as a necessary supplement to the type of natural selection theorized by Charles Darwin. Explanations of religion that remain in the shadow cast by Darwin's great insights will, it is argued, remain narrow and incomplete when explaining a robust sociocultural phenomenon like religion.
目次
List of Figures
List of Tables
About the Authors
Preface
Chapter 1: Explaining the Origins and Evolution of Religions
Chapter 2: Types of Natural Selection Driving Religious Evolution: A Preliminary Review
Chapter 3: In The Beginning: The Evolution of the Primates
Chapter 4: Darwinian Selection on the Hominin Brain I: Directional Selection on Pre-adaptations
Chapter 5: Darwinian Selection on The Hominin Brain II: Selection on Behavioral Propensities and Capacities
Chapter 6: The Profane Origins of the Sacred and Supernatural: Darwinian and Type-1 Spencerian Natural Selection
Chapter 7: Type-1 Spencerian Selection: The Early Institutionalization of Religion
Chapter 8: Durkheimian Selection: The Social Ecology of Religious Evolution
Chapter 9: Type-2 Spencerian Selection: The Geopolitics of Religious Evolution
Chapter 10: Marxian Selection: The Dynamics of Religious Conflict
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
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