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Why anthropologists don't know what religion is: religion and ritual| old_uid | 7911 |
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| title | Why anthropologists don't know what religion is: religion and ritual |
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| start_date | 2010/01/08 |
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| schedule | 14h30-16h30 |
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| online | no |
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| summary | I shall argue that the attempts to explain “religion” in general and evolutionary terms in the cognitive sciences have all suffered from being bounded by unexamined concepts of religion, religious belief and ritual that in fact only apply to a relatively recent historical phenomenon: the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam). However if a more fundamental approach to some of the kind of things which are involved in the Abrahamic religions but not limited to them is taken, we find that much more general ideas that have been developed in the cognitive sciences for understanding the human social as such, turn out to be very revealing and much more useful for the study of religious like phenomena than thinking of “religion” as a cognitive oddity. |
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| responsibles | Pacherie, Dokic, Proust |
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