Ancestors Territoriality And Gods

Author : Ina Wunn,Davina Grojnowski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783662527573

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Ancestors, Territoriality, and Gods by Ina Wunn,Davina Grojnowski Pdf

This books sets out to explain how and why religion came into being. Today this question is as fascinating as ever, especially since religion has moved to the centre of socio-political relationships. In contrast to the current, but incomplete approaches from disciplines such as cognitive science and psychology, the present authors adopt a new approach, equally manifest and constructive, that explains the origins of religion based strictly on behavioural biology. They employ accepted research results that remove all need for speculation. Decisive factors for the earliest demonstrations of religion are thus territorial behaviour and ranking, coping with existential fears, and conflict solution with the help of rituals. These in turn, in a process of cultural evolution, are shown to be the roots of the historical and contemporary religions.

Author : Stephan Feuchtwang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000389593

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Popular Religion in China by Stephan Feuchtwang Pdf

First published in 2001, Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor was written to bring together both the previously unpublished and published results of fieldwork in the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan and to put them into an historical, political, and theoretical context. The book presents Chinese popular religion as a distinctive institution and describes its content as an ‘imperial metaphor’. In doing so, it explores a wide range of topics, including both official and local cults, local festivals, Daoism, Ang Gong, the politics of religion, and political ritual.

Author : David Faure,Ts'ui-p'ing Ho
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774823715

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Chieftains into Ancestors by David Faure,Ts'ui-p'ing Ho Pdf

Official Chinese history has always been written from a centrist viewpoint. Chieftains into Ancestors describes the intersection of imperial administration and chieftain-dominated local culture in the culturally diverse southwestern region of China. Contemplating the rhetorical question of how one can begin to rewrite the story of a conquered people whose past was never transcribed in the first place, the authors combine anthropological fieldwork with historical textual analysis to build a new regional history � one that recognizes the ethnic, religious, and gendered transformations that took place in China's nation-building process.

Author : Ina Wunn,Davina Grojnowski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030044350

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Religious Speciation by Ina Wunn,Davina Grojnowski Pdf

This book presents a consecutive story on the evolution of religions. It starts with an analysis of evolution in biology and ends with a discussion of what a proper theory of religious evolution should look like. It discusses such questions as whether it is humankind or religion that evolves, how religions evolve, and what adaptation of religions means. Topics examined include inheritance and heredity, religio-speciation, hybridization, ontogenetics and epigenetics, phylogenetics, and systematics. Calling attention to unsolved problems and relating the evolutionary subject matter to appropriate material, the book integrates and interprets existing data. Based on the belief that an unequivocal stand is more likely to produce constructive criticism than evasion of an issue, the book chooses that interpretation of a controversial matter which seems most consistent with the emerging picture of the evolutionary process. “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution,” the evolutionary biologist and co-founder of the so-called New Synthesis in Evolutionary Biology, Theodosius Dobszhansky (1900-1975), wrote in his famous essay of 1973, opposing creationism in American society. Today, Dobszhansky’s statement is not only fully accepted in biology, but has become the scientific paradigm in disciplines such as psychology, archaeology and the study of religions. Yet in spite of this growing interest in evolutionary processes in religion and culture, the term "evolution" and the capability of an evolutionary account have to date still not been properly understood by scholars of the Humanities. This book closes that gap.

Author : Hansjörg Hemminger
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030704087

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Evolutionary Processes in the Natural History of Religion by Hansjörg Hemminger Pdf

The study of religion by the humanities and social sciences has become receptive for an evolutionary perspective. Some proposals model the evolution of religion in Darwinian terms, or construct a synergy between biological and non-Darwinian processes. The results, however, have not yet become truly interdisciplinary. The biological theory of evolution in form of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) is only sparsely represented in theories published so far by scholars of religion. Therefore this book reverses the line of view and asks how their results assort with evolutionary biology: How can the subject area “religion” integrated into behavioral biology? How is theory building affected by the asymmetry between the scarce empirical knowledge of prehistoric religion, and the body of knowledge about extant and historic religions? How does hominin evolution in general relate to the evolution of religion? Are there evolutionary pre-adaptations? Subsequent versions of evolutionary biology from the original Darwinism to EES are used in interdisciplinary constructs. Can they be integrated into a comprehensive theory? The biological concept most often used is co-evolution, in form of a gene-culture co-evolution. However, the term denotes a process different from biological co-evolution. Important EES concepts do not appear in present models of religious evolution: e.g. neutral evolution, evolutionary drift, evolutionary constraints etc. How to include them into an interdisciplinary approach? Does the cognitive science of religion (CSR) harmonize with behavioral biology and the brain sciences? Religion as part of human culture is supported by a complex, multi-level behavioral system. How can it be modeled scientifically? The book addresses graduate students and researchers concerned about the scientific study of religion, and biologist interested in interdisciplinary theory building in the field.

Author : Jay R. Feierman,Lluis Oviedo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000704853

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The Evolution of Religion, Religiosity and Theology by Jay R. Feierman,Lluis Oviedo Pdf

This book takes a multi-dimensional and multi-disciplinary approach to religion, religiosity and theology from their earliest beginnings to the present day. It uniquely brings together the natural sciences and theology to explore how religious practice emerged and developed through the four sections into which the book is organized: Evolutionary biology; Philosophical linguistics, psychology and neuroscience; Theology and Anthropology. The volume features an international panel of contributors who develop an innovative picture of religion as a culturally-created social institution; religiosity as a more personal and subjective anthropological element of people expressed through religion; and theology as the study of god. To survive in changing times, living systems — a good characterization of religion, religiosity and theology — all must adaptively evolve. This is a vital study of a rapidly burgeoning field. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars in religious studies and theology as well as in the psychological, sociological, and anthropological study of religion.

Author : David Lucking
Publisher : Bern : Peter Lang
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Communauté dans la littérature
ISBN : 0820456276

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Ancestors and Gods by David Lucking Pdf

Author : Adam McKeown
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0226560244

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Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change by Adam McKeown Pdf

Inspired by recent work on diaspora and cultural globalization, Adam McKeown asks in this new book: How were the experiences of different migrant communities and hometowns in China linked together through common networks? Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change argues that the political and economic activities of Chinese migrants can best be understood by taking into account their links to each other and China through a transnational perspective. Despite their very different histories, Chinese migrant families, businesses, and villages were connected through elaborate networks and shared institutions that stretched across oceans and entire continents. Through small towns in Qing and Republican China, thriving enclaves of businesses in South Chicago, broad-based associations of merchants and traders in Peru, and an auspicious legacy of ancestors in Hawaii, migrant Chinese formed an extensive system that made cultural and commercial exchange possible.

Author : P. Sangren
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1987-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804766609

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History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community by P. Sangren Pdf

This book is a case study of history and culture in the Taiwanese town of Ta-ch'i and the group of rural villages that constitute its standard marketing community. However, its scope exceeds that of most community studies. The author attempts to construct a holistic view of Chinese culture from an analysis of the relationship between history and ritual in a particular locality. The author argues that social institutions and collective representations are dialectically connected in the process of social and cultural reproduction. He describes this dialectical process through an analysis of the key cultural concept of ling, the magical power attributed to ghosts, gods, and ancestors. In analyzing the symbolic logic of ling, he asserts that it can be fully understood only as a product of the reproduction of social institutions and as a manifestation of a native historical consciousness. Structuralist and Marxist insights are combined to explain how ling is best understood as both a cultural logic of symbolic relations and a material logic of social relations. The book is in three parts. Part I is a social and economic history that outlines what one might call an objectivist or positivist view of Ta-ch'i's history, describing events as they were, regardless of the perceptions of local participants. This material is a background to the synchronic sociological analysis of local territorial cults that constitutes Part II. In Part III, the author unsettles the objectivist assumptions of Part I by showing how the idiom of ling underlies Taiwanese constructions of history and identity and how the cultural construction of history dialectically reproduces society and creates history. The book is illustrated with 8 pages of photographs, 17 line drawings, and 9 maps.

Author : John Lagerwey,Marc Kalinowski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047442424

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Early Chinese Religion, Part One: Shang through Han (1250 BC-220 AD) (2 vols.) by John Lagerwey,Marc Kalinowski Pdf

Together, and for the first time in any language, the 24 essays gathered in these volumes provide a composite picture of the history of religion in ancient China from the emergence of writing ca. 1250 BC to the collapse of the first major imperial dynasty in 220 AD. It is a multi-faceted tale of changing gods and rituals that includes the emergence of a form of “secular humanism” that doubts the existence of the gods and the efficacy of ritual and of an imperial orthodoxy that founds its legitimacy on a distinction between licit and illicit sacrifices. Written by specialists in a variety of disciplines, the essays cover such subjects as divination and cosmology, exorcism and medicine, ethics and self-cultivation, mythology, taboos, sacrifice, shamanism, burial practices, iconography, and political philosophy. Produced under the aegis of the Centre de recherche sur les civilisations chinoise, japonaise et tibétaine (UMR 8155) and the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris).

Author : Annet Nieuwhof
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789492444363

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Eight Human Skulls in a Dung Heap and More by Annet Nieuwhof Pdf

The study of ritual practice in the past is an accepted part of archaeological research these days. Yet, its theoretical basis is still not fully mature. This book aims at making a contribution to the study of ritual practice in the past by assembling a theoretical framework, which is tailored to the needs of archaeology, and which helps to identity and interpret the remains of rituals in the past. This framework is applied in a special archaeological region: the coastal area of the northern Netherlands, a former salt marsh area. In the past, people lived here on artificial dwelling mounds, so-called terps. Preservation conditions are excellent in this wetland area. This study makes use of the well-preserved remains of rituals in terps, to examine the role of ritual practice in the societies of the pre-Roman and Roman Iron Age in this area.

Author : Bernard Formoso
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1571811214

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The Link with Nature and Divine Meditations in Asia by Bernard Formoso Pdf

Peasant societies in many parts of the world regulate their relationship with the natural environment through earth gods who anchor a group of families not in genealogical terms, as in the case of ancestors, but in ecological terms. The articles in this volume illustrate the role of, and the cultural activities surrounding, the earth gods in rural communities in Asian societies. More specifically, they show that, within the Asian context, it is possible to differentiate between two modes representing the earth gods and the relationship with nature, i.e., one that corresponds to state societies and the other to tribal ones.

Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300060831

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The Land Called Holy by Robert Louis Wilken Pdf

Drawing on both primary texts and archaelogy, Wilken traces the Christian conception of a Holy Land from its origins inthe Hebrew Bible to the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem in the seventh century.

Author : Miles Kahler,Barbara F. Walter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139452694

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Territoriality and Conflict in an Era of Globalization by Miles Kahler,Barbara F. Walter Pdf

Predictions that globalization would undermine territorial attachments and weaken the sources of territorial conflict have not been realized in recent decades. Globalization may have produced changes in territoriality and the functions of borders, but it has not eliminated them. The contributors to this volume examine this relationship, arguing that much of the change can be attributed to sources other than economic globalization. Bringing the perspectives of law, political science, anthropology, and geography to bear on the complex causal relations among territoriality, conflict, and globalization, leading contributors examine how territorial attachments are constructed, why they have remained so powerful in the face of an increasingly globalized world, and what effect continuing strong attachments may have on conflict. They argue that territorial attachments and people's willingness to fight for territory depends upon the symbolic role it plays in constituting people's identities, and producing a sense of belonging in an increasingly globalized world.

Author : Susan Mansfield
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781445246550

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Spiritual warfare: fact or fiction? by Susan Mansfield Pdf