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evolutionist concerns with the origins of religion, the Durkheimian functionalist concerns with the role of religion in a social whole, a Freudian functionalism which probed religion's projective functionality to individual anxieties of guilt.
19 lut 2007 · This article examines Geertz's well-known definition of religion, with its emphasis on meanings, and argues that it omits the crucial dimension of power, that it ignores the varying social ...
Science and religion are modes of thought, ways of knowing or forms of life that have been pervasive in Western cultural formations for the last three to four centuries. As theories about the world and human life, they have often engendered conflicting viewpoints redolent of acrimonious social and cultural struggles.
20 lip 2015 · Religion: An Anthropological Perspective provides a critical view of religion focusing upon important but overlooked topics such as religion, cognition, and prehistory; science,...
This article examines Geertz's well-known definition of religion, with its emphasis on meanings, and argues that it omits the crucial dimension of power, that it ignores the varying social conditions for the production of knowledge, and that its initial plausibility derives from the
2 wrz 2009 · In the social sciences of religion the task of defining religion can be characterized as a necessary, exploratory, and useful task, but also as a superfluous, impossible, and ethnocentric activity. In this chapter the landscape is mapped through which definers of religion travel, including its T-junctions and crossroads.
In recent years, research on religion as a means to understand human thought has received a striking new impetus within cognitive approaches to the field. This work has blended the findings of evolutionary and cognitive psychology with those of anthropology.
