Evolution of Religious Belief

Armin W. Geertz

doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.81055-7

Evolution of Religious Belief

Armin W. Geertz

Institut for Kultur og Samfund - Afdeling for Religionsvidenskab

Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport/proceeding › Encyclopædiartikel › Forskning › peer review

9 Citationer (Scopus)

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.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition)
Redaktører	James D. Wright
Antal sider	12
Vol/bind	20
Udgivelsessted	Oxford
Forlag	Elsevier
Publikationsdato	2015
Udgave	2nd
Sider	384-395
ISBN (Trykt)	9780080970868
ISBN (Elektronisk)	978-0-08-097087-5
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.81055-7
Status	Udgivet - 2015

Emneord

religion
religionsvidenskab
evolution
kognitiv religionsvidenskab
religionssociologi
religionsantropologi
religionspsykologi
biologi
historie
arkæologi
religionshistorie

Adgang til dokumentet

10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.81055-7

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