14 results on '"religionshistorie"'
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2. Evolutionary Theories of Religion
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Ryan McKay, Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo, and Armin W. Geertz
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neuropsykologi ,arkæologi ,neurosociologi ,kognitiv religionsvidenskab ,evolution ,eksperimentel psykologi ,Eksperimentel antropologi ,evolutionær sociologi ,eksperimentel religionsvidenskab ,religionshistorie ,Psychology ,Linguistics ,religionssociologi - Abstract
Introduktion til et temanummer om Evolutionary Theories of Religion.
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- 2018
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3. Approcci cognitivi ed evoluzionistici alla religione
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Geertz, Armin W.
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religion og evolution ,kognitiv religionsvidenskab ,religionspsykologi ,religionshistorie ,teori og metode ,religionsantropologi - Abstract
En antologi af tidligere udgivede artikler, essays og kapitler oversat til italiensk
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- 2020
4. Hvorfor, hvorfra (og hvornår) kom religion?
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Armin W. Geertz
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evolution og religion ,Definition of religion ,Evolution ,Philosophy ,kognitiv religionsvidenskab ,Religious studies ,kulturel evolution ,religionshistorie ,Religion ,Cognitive science of religion ,Neurobiology of religion ,Method and theory in the study of religion ,neurobiologi ,religionspsykologi ,Humanities ,social evolution ,religionssociologi - Abstract
Engelsk summary: “Why, Wherefrom (and When) Did Religion Appear?” This article presents my reflections on the evolution of religion from the perspective of the cognitive science of religion and the neurobiology of religion. Two important features of the brain were crucial to our evolution, i.e. the expansion of the emotional and subcortical areas on the one hand and the cortex on the other. The former was essential to the development of viable social systems and the latter to the development of stone tool technologies and material culture. Furthermore, the growth of the brain was apparently due to the growing complexity of human social structures that culture brought with it. A key feature of the brain is that it is incomplete in human infants and is first fully matured after two decades of social and cultural life: the unfinished animal that becomes completed through a particular culture. Looking closer at the neuropsychological evidence of our brains and behavior, I have identified four key human features, namely, a finely honed social cognition, a drive to communicate and cooperate, a self-deceptive brain and a superstitious brain prone to unusual mental and/or emotional experiences. These traits, I argue, are prerequisites for religious behavior. In looking through the archaeological records, there is good reason to look beyond our species into the deep hominin past. A likely candidate that seems to have evinced proto-religious behavior is Homo heidelbergensis (between 600,000 and 400,000 years ago).Dansk Resumé: I denne artikel præsenterer jeg med udgangspunkt i den kognitive og den neurobiologiske religionsvidenskab mine refleksioner over religionens evolution. To aspekter af hjernen er afgørende for vores evolution. Den ene er udvidelsen af de emotionelle og indre dele af hjernen og den anden er udvidelsen af hjernebarken. Førstnævnte var en nødvendig forudsætning for udviklingen af levedygtige social systemer og sidstnævnte for udviklingen af stenredskaber og anden materiel kultur. Hertil kommer at hjernens udvikling hang kausalt sammen med den voksende social kompleksitet og den kulturelle udvikling, som denne kompleksitet førte med sig. Hjernen har den særlige egenskab, at den ikke er fuldt udviklet ved fødslen og først er “moden” efter to årtiers sociale og kulturelle liv, hvor også hjerneskallen først er vokset endelig sammen (for kvinder 18 år for mænd 21 år). Således bliver det ufærdige dyr færdiggjort inden for en specifik kultur. Når man ser på de seneste landvindinger inden for neuropsykologien, er der fire kendetegn, som jeg mener, er konstituerende for mennesket. Disse er: en finudviklet social kognition, en kommunikations- og samarbejdsdrift, en bedragerisk hjerne samt en overtroisk hjerne med tendens til ualmindelige mentale og/eller emotionelle oplevelser. Disse egenskaber er en nødvendig forudsætning for religiøst adfærd. Når man ser på de arkæologiske vidnesbyrd i jagten på det religiøse menneske, skal man gå betydeligt længere tilbage end Homo sapiens, ja, man skal langt tilbage i homininlinjen. De første proto-religiøse træk synes at komme til syne med Homo heidelbergensis (mellem 600.000 og 400.000 år siden).
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- 2018
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5. Det religiøse menneskedyr
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Geertz, Armin W. and Høgh-Olesen, Henrik
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evolution og religion ,kognitiv religionsvidenskab ,neurobiologi ,religionspsykologi ,kulturel evolution ,religionshistorie - Published
- 2018
6. Ritual and embodied cognition
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Armin W. Geertz, Eva Kundtová Klocová, Uro, Risto, Day, Juliette J., DeMaris, Richard E., Roitto, Rikard, and Demaris, Richard E.
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Embeddedness ,Christianity ,Embodiment ,neuropsykologi ,Neuropsychology ,Experimental study of religion ,religiøse ritualer ,history of religions ,Sociology ,Empirical evidence ,Cognitive science ,Psychology of religion ,Field (Bourdieu) ,study of religion ,kognitiv religionsvidenskab ,Cognition ,religionshistorie ,kognition ,ritual theory ,Sketch ,Embodied cognition ,Cognitive science of religion ,religion ,theology ,method and theory ,eksperimentel religionsvidenskab ,history ,kristendom - Abstract
This chapter focuses on the growing empirical knowledge about the interaction between bodily actions, human thinking, and the cultural embeddedness of human cognition. An approach to ritual based on this expanded view of cognition produces important perspectives and insights for the study of religions. Embodied cognition is a very diverse field and the chapter therefore draws on what is called the ‘4E approach’, i.e. cognition as embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive. Humans are enmeshed in a vast dynamic network of other bodies and minds stretching across the planet and back to the beginnings of time. We are biocultural creatures, in a most concrete sense. What is needed is a systematic, scientific study of brain, body, and behaviour in religious rituals. This chapter will sketch out some of the available evidence and the theories that have been developed to understand the evidence.
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- 2018
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7. Evolution of Religious Belief
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Geertz, Armin W. and Wright, James D.
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biologi ,arkæologi ,religion ,evolution ,kognitiv religionsvidenskab ,religionspsykologi ,historie ,religionshistorie ,religionsvidenskab ,religionssociologi ,religionsantropologi - Abstract
With the rise of the comparative sciences in the middle of the nineteenth century, major evolutionary schemes were posited. During the first decades of the twentieth century, these theories were rejected in anthropology, sociology, and the historical sciences. Evolutionary approaches, however, continued in isolation, but grew stronger toward the 1970s. In the historical and social sciences, evolutionary theories gained importance in relation to the Axial Age. The cognitive science of religion, founded in 1990 by scholars of religion, developed hypotheses conceived within evolutionary frameworks. These hypotheses are being tested in the laboratory, in the field, in simulation models, and in the development of historical databases.
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- 2015
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8. Religionsforskningen før og nu II:Nyere tid
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Geertz, Armin W. and Jensen, Tim
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diskursanalyse ,strukturalisme ,religionssemiotik ,filologi ,kognitiv religionsvidenskab ,universitets historie ,komparation ,religionshistorie ,fagkritik ,religionsvidenskab ,globalisering ,sekularisme ,civilreligion ,religionspsykologi ,evolution ,religionsforskningens historie ,religion og køn ,religionsfænomenologi ,primitivisme ,postkolonial kritik ,videnskabsteori ,teori og metode ,hermeneutik ,religionssociologi - Abstract
Værket er andet bind i et to-binds værk med titlen Religionsforksningen før og nu, der beskriver religionsvidenskabens tilblivelse, udvikling og nutidige teoretiske retninger. Begge bind beskriver og spejler også dansk religionsvidenskab og danske religionsforskere, før og nu. Dette bind er, med en enkelt undtagelse, forfattet af danske religionsforskere, de fleste ansat ved et af de tre universiteter i København, Aarhus og Odense, hvor der findes institutter eller afdelinger for religionsvidenskab.
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- 2015
9. From Greek ruins to a child's mind:A research odyssey of sorts. Interview with Armin W. Geertz
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Munk, Kirstine and Geertz, Armin W.
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hopiindianerne ,kognitiv religionsvidenskab ,neurovidenskab og religion ,feltarbejde ,religionshistorie ,religionsvidenskab ,religionsantropologi - Abstract
Et interview med mig udført af Kirstine Munk.
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- 2013
10. Introduction
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Geertz, Armin W. and Geertz, Armin W.
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religion og evolution ,religion, kognition og kultur ,kognitiv religionsvidenskab ,evolution ,religionspsykologi ,religionshistorie ,evolutionspsykologi ,teori og metode - Abstract
It has often been said that the origins of religion, cognition and culture are beyond the ken of modern man. And yet, it is the most interesting, challenging and provocative of topics in the natural and human sciences. Perhaps our origins are no longer as murky today as in previous centuries. The past twenty-five years have startled the world with major advances in a number of disciplines and sciences: evolutionary psychology, cognitive archaeology, neuroscience, ethology, developmental psychology, social psychology, cognitive linguistics, palaeoanthropology and genetics. These advances have significantly impacted on comparative religion and have led to the establishment of a burgeoning new field called the cognitive science of religion. This new field has succeeded in casting new light on age-old problems. Efforts to discover and explain the evolutionary origins of Homo sapiens sapiens have led to a wide variety of hypotheses attempting to discover what is particularly human about human beings. We have witnessed such memorable ideas as the grandmother hypothesis, the aquatic ape, man the tool-maker, man the hunter, woman the gatherer, crossing symbolic thresholds, the speaking ape, social intelligence, the great hominid escape, mankind's epistemic hunger, the hybrid mind, and so on. All of these attempts to understand the origins of humanity have raised fundamental questions about the complex relationships between cognition and culture. Are they two sides of the same coin? Or is culture epiphenomenal to other more basic processes? And how does religion fit into the picture?.
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- 2012
11. Origins of religion, cognition and culture
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Geertz, Armin W.
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religion og evolution ,religion, kognition og kultur ,kognitiv religionsvidenskab ,religionshistorie ,teori og metode - Published
- 2012
12. Too much mind and not enough brain, body and culture:On what needs to be done in the cognitive science of religion
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Geertz, Armin W.
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metode ,neurovidenskab ,kognitiv religionsvidenskab ,study of religion ,methodology ,religionshistorie ,kognition ,teori ,religionsvidenskab ,neuroscience ,religion ,neurologi ,cognitive science of religion ,theory ,kognitiv historiografi - Abstract
En genudgivelse af en artikel med samme titel (udgivet i Historia Religionum, 11 (2), 2010, s. 21-37). Baseret på et konferencebidrag i 2009 ved European Association for the Study of Religion i Messina, Italien. Artiklen giver et alternativt bud på hvad kognition er og hvordan hjerne, krop og kultur påvirker hinanden.
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- 2010
13. Om religion og evolution: En introduktion
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Armin W. Geertz
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biokultur ,biosemiotik ,arkæologi ,religion ,evolution ,kognitiv religionsvidenskab ,Religious studies ,religionshistorie ,Darwin ,religionsvidenskab - Abstract
I denne artikel introduceres indledningsvis evolutionsteoriens idehistorie i korte traek. Efter en kritisk beskrivelse af evolutionspsykologiens antagelser, metoder og foretrukne emner opstilles en alternativ anskuelsesmade, som afviser dele af evolutionspsykologiens grundlag og som argumenterer for kulturens kausale virkning pa den menneskelige kognition og ikke mindst den hominine evolution. Ud fra, hvad vi ved om den menneskelige evolution, ses det, at den hominine evolution har en dybde, som sjaeldent medtaenkes i teorier og hypoteser om den menneskelige evolution. Den menneskelige evolution er begyndt laenge for homo-arten, endog for Australopithecus , hvor man finder primitive stenredskaber og tilstedevaerelse af (dog ikke kontrol over) ild, og hvor de fysiologiske og genetiske forandringer, som forte til mennesket, ogsa var pabegyndt. Dernaest opstilles otte traek, som kan have vaeret til stede i, hvad man kan kalde en ‛ proto-religion’. Den art, som sandsynligvis har besiddet disse traek, er Homo erectus ; men der kan have vaeret ansatser til denne proto-religion endnu tidligere. Artiklen afsluttes med en diskussion af de mest kendte teorier og hypoteser, der har forsogt at forklare, hvorfor mennesket blev religiost. Hovedtesen i denne artikel er, at mennesket har udviklet sig som hybridt vaesen, dvs. som et vaesen hvis biologiske udvikling er gaet hand i hand med dens kulturelle udvikling. De udgor to sider af samme sag, ogsa i kausal forstand. Mennesket er folgelig et biokulturelt og biosemiotisk vaesen.
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- 2011
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14. The story of a creature with peculiar habits
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Armin W. Geertz
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religionsevolution ,kognitiv religionsvidenskab ,evolution ,religionshistorie ,religionssociologi - Abstract
En redegørelse for religionens evolution baseret på bogen The Emergence and Evolution of Religion: By Means of Natural Selection.
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