Rethinking Symbolism

Author : Dan Sperber
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1975-09-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521099676

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Rethinking Symbolism by Dan Sperber Pdf

"The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthropologists. He demonstrates that symbols enter all phases of social life: those which we tend to regard as strictly pragmatic, or based on concerns with material need or advantage, as well as those which we tend to view as purely symbolic, such as ideology, ritual, myth, moral codes, and the like. . . ."—Robert McKinley, Reviews in Anthropology

Author : E. Thomas Lawson,Robert N. McCauley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521438063

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Rethinking Religion by E. Thomas Lawson,Robert N. McCauley Pdf

This book is an ambitious attempt to develop a cognitive approach to religion. Focusing particularly on ritual action, it borrows analytical methods from linguistics and other cognitive sciences. The authors, a philosopher of science and a scholar of comparative religion, provide a lucid critical review of established approaches to religion, and make a strong plea for the combination of interpretation and explanation. Often represented as competitive approaches, they are rather, complementary, equally vital to the study of symbolic systems.

Author : Roland Faber
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474429597

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Rethinking Whitehead's Symbolism by Roland Faber Pdf

11 essays by leading Whitehead scholars re-examinae Whitehead's Barbour-Page lectures, published as the book Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect in 1927, to give you exciting insights into the contemporary implications of Whitehead's symbolism in an era of new scientific, cultural and technological developments.

Author : Leopold Damrosch Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400853731

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Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth by Leopold Damrosch Jr. Pdf

In a controversial examination of the conceptual bases of Blake's myth, Leopold Damrosch argues that his poems contain fundamental contradictions, but that this fact docs not imply philosophical or artistic failure. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : R. Jon McGee,Richard L. Warms
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1053 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506307756

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Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology by R. Jon McGee,Richard L. Warms Pdf

Social and cultural anthropology and archaeology are rich subjects with deep connections in the social and physical sciences. Over the past 150 years, the subject matter and different theoretical perspectives have expanded so greatly that no single individual can command all of it. Consequently, both advanced students and professionals may be confronted with theoretical positions and names of theorists with whom they are only partially familiar, if they have heard of them at all. Students, in particular, are likely to turn to the web to find quick background information on theorists and theories. However, most web-based information is inaccurate and/or lacks depth. Students and professionals need a source to provide a quick overview of a particular theory and theorist with just the basics—the "who, what, where, how, and why," if you will. In response, SAGE Reference plans to publish the two-volume Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia. Features & Benefits: Two volumes containing approximately 335 signed entries provide users with the most authoritative and thorough reference resource available on anthropology theory, both in terms of breadth and depth of coverage. To ease navigation between and among related entries, a Reader's Guide groups entries thematically and each entry is followed by Cross-References. In the electronic version, the Reader's Guide combines with the Cross-References and a detailed Index to provide robust search-and-browse capabilities. An appendix with a Chronology of Anthropology Theory allows students to easily chart directions and trends in thought and theory from early times to the present. Suggestions for Further Reading at the end of each entry and a Master Bibliography at the end guide readers to sources for more detailed research and discussion.

Author : Carol S. Anderson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0700710655

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Pain and Its Ending by Carol S. Anderson Pdf

"The four noble truths are the most widely recognized teaching of the Buddha today. This book is the first comprehensive study of the teaching as it appears in the the Tipitaka, the canon of the Theravada Buddhism." --Book Jacket.

Author : E. Thomas Lawson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350355897

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Imagining the Cognitive Science of Religion by E. Thomas Lawson Pdf

Uniting Thomas Lawson's essays on the cognitive science of religion, this volume explores theoretical issues in the study of cultural phenomena such as religion, the role of imagination, and the experiments that emerge from these theories. The book begins with Lawson's influential essay “Towards a Cognitive Science of Religion,” which was the first to employ the phrase, and has since become widely adopted in many different disciplines. It signals to scholars in the humanities that the cognitive revolution has finally reached them and serves to introduce them to the world of science. The rest of the book focuses on theoretical issues in the study of cultural phenomena and describes experiments by scholars working on the connections between cognition and culture. Described as "the grandfather of the cognitive science of religion," Lawson offers a unique perspective on the development of the field and the principles that underlie it, which will be relevant to both newcomers and established scholars.

Author : Michael Stausberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047412502

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Zoroastrian Rituals in Context by Michael Stausberg Pdf

Rituals play a prominent role in Zoroastrianism, one of the oldest religious traditions of mankind. In this book, scholars from a broad range of disciplines make the first ever collective effort to discuss Zoroastrian rituals in different historical contexts and geographical settings.

Author : Jennifer Wright Knust,Zsuzsanna Varhelyi,Zsuzsanna Várhelyi
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199738960

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Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice by Jennifer Wright Knust,Zsuzsanna Varhelyi,Zsuzsanna Várhelyi Pdf

An investigation of the multiple meanings and functions of sacrifice in diverse religious texts and practices from the late Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods.

Author : Barry A. Turner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110851618

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Organizational Symbolism by Barry A. Turner Pdf

Author : Naphtali S. Meshel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198705567

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The "grammar" of Sacrifice by Naphtali S. Meshel Pdf

The notion that rituals, like natural languages, are governed by implicit, rigorous rules led scholars in the last century, harking back to the early Indian grammarian Patanjali, to speak of a "grammar", or "syntax", of ritual, particularly sacrificial ritual. Despite insightful examples of ritual complexes that follow hierarchical rules akin to syntactic structures in natural languages, and ambitious attempts to imagine a Universal Grammar of sacrificial ritual, no single, comprehensive "grammar" of any ritual system has yet been composed. This book offers the first such "grammar." Centering on *S-the idealized sacrificial system represented in the Priestly laws in the Pentateuch--it demonstrates that a ritual system is describable in terms of a set of concise, unconsciously internalized, generative rules, analogous to the grammar of a natural language. Despite far-reaching diachronic developments, reflected in Second Temple and rabbinic literature, the ancient Israelite sacrificial system retained a highly unchangeable "grammar," which is abstracted and analysed in a formulaic manner. The limits of the analogy to linguistics are stressed: rather than categories borrowed from linguistics, such as syntax and morphology, the operative categories of *S are abstracted inductively from the ritual texts: zoemics--the study of the classes of animals used in ritual sacrifice; jugation-the rules governing the joining of animal and non-animal materials; hierarchics-the tiered structuring of sacrificial sequences; and praxemics--the analysis of the physical activity comprising sacrificial procedures. Finally, the problem of meaning in non-linguistic ritual systems is addressed.

Author : Mladen Turk
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620324042

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Being Religious by Mladen Turk Pdf

What makes us religious? What is religion? This book presents relevant research and theoretical proposals for evolutionary theories of religion and socially and ecologically adaptive theories of religion. Most attempts to study religious behaviors through evolutionary biology and related disciplines are still very fragmentary. Mladen Turk brings those theoretical approaches in dialogue with religious studies and theology through interpretation and critique that centers on revealing hidden theological assumptions and interpreting theoretical leaps of those approaches to religion. In Being Religious Turk expounds understanding of religion as a complex interplay of various capacities arising from and influencing our biological and cultural makeup. Our religious behaviors can influence our relationship towards each other and towards our environment in significant ways. He shows how some aspects of complex religious behaviors can be understood better in light of human cognition and evolutionary biology. At the same time he interprets this knowledge as being preliminary and at times inadequate in its claims of completeness and exhaustiveness because religious behaviors are niched within other religious behaviors and dependent on factors that various mono-causal theoretical approaches cannot fully conceptualize.

Author : Tomáš Bubík,Jakub Havlíček,Silvie Kotherová,Dušan Lužný,Rudolf Havelka
Publisher : Palacký University Olomouc
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788024460130

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Academic Study of Religions in a Cognitive, Anthropological and Sociological Perspective by Tomáš Bubík,Jakub Havlíček,Silvie Kotherová,Dušan Lužný,Rudolf Havelka Pdf

The book deals with current issues of the study of religion as an academic discipline, especially cognitive, anthropological and sociological research of religious thought and behaviour. Publikace pojednává o aktuálních problémech religionistiky jako akademické disciplíny, zejména pak o kognitivním, antropologickém a sociologickém výzkumu náboženského myšlení a chování.

Author : J. Harley Chapman,Nancy K. Frankenberry
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791498743

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Interpreting Neville by J. Harley Chapman,Nancy K. Frankenberry Pdf

Interpreting Neville provides the first book-length treatment of the thought of Robert Cummings Neville, one of the most important and wide-ranging scholars working across the fields of philosophy, theology, and comparative studies today. Contributors assess the systematic structure and methodological unity of Neville's trilogy Axiology of Thinking, provide a postmodern contextualization of Neville's philosophy, and evaluate the critical relation of Neville to the history of Western philosophy. Metaphysical questions crucial to Neville's project are critiqued from different vantage points, theological problems are examined, and the comparative issues outstanding in Neville's understanding of Chinese philosophy are assessed. Enhancing the book is a rich concluding essay written by Neville himself in response to each author. [Contributors include George Allan, Delwin Brown, J. Harley Chapman, Chung-ying Cheng, Patricia Cook, Robert Corrington, Hermann Deuser, Lewis S. Ford, Nancy K. Frankenberry, David L. Hall, George R. Lucas, Jr., Robert C. Neville, Sandra Rosenthal, Marjorie Suchocki, Carl G. Vaught, and Edith Wyschogrod.]

Author : Michael Houseman,Carlo Severi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004112200

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Naven, Or, The Other Self by Michael Houseman,Carlo Severi Pdf

This book proposes a novel approach to the analysis of ritual action. Founded upon an in-depth study of the transvestism naven ceremony of the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea, it focuses on the relational and interactive forms entailed by ritual performance.