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Contemporary theories of religion : a critical companion / edited by Michael Stausberg.

Contributor(s): Stausberg, Michael
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: x, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415463478 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0415463475 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780415463461 (hardback : alk. paper); 0415463467 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): ReligionDDC classification: 200 LOC classification: BL48 | .C575 2009Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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 ; 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 (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 ; 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 ; 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 (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 ; 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.

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