Harvey Whitehouse

Modes of Religiosity

A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Religions_whatever else they may be_are configurations of cultural information reproduced across space and time. Beginning with this seemingly obvious fact of religious transmission, Harvey Whitehouse goes on to construct a testable theory of how religions are created, passed on, and changed. At the center of his theory are two divergent 'modes of religiosity:' the imagistic and the doctrinal.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 309g
• ISBN-13: 9780759106154
• ISBN-10: 0759106150
• Artikelnr.: 22052244

Autorenporträt

Harvey Whitehouse

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Preface
Part 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 What is "Religion"?
Chapter 4 What is "Ritual"?
Chapter 5 Ritual and Religious Revelation
Chapter 6 Outline of the Volume
Part 7 PART ONE: COGNITION AND RELIGIOUS TRANSMISSION
Part 8 Chapter One: First Principles for Explaining Religion and Ritual
Chapter 9 Religious Traditions are Materially Constrained
Chapter 10 Religious Phenomena are Selected
Chapter 11 The Selection of Religious Phenomena is Context-Dependent
Chapter 12 Religious Transmission is Partly Motivated by Explicit Religious
Concepts
Part 13 Chapter Two: Cognitively Optimal Religion
Chapter 14 The Naturalness of Gods
Chapter 15 The Naturalness of Ritual
Chapter 16 The Naturalness of Myth
Part 17 Chapter Three: Cognitively Costly Religion
Chapter 18 Cognitively Costly Gods
Chapter 19 Cognitively Costly Rituals
Chapter 20 Cognitively Costly Narratives
Part 21 PART TWO: THE THEORY OF MODES OF RELIGIOSITY
Part 22 Chapter Four: The Theory of Modes of Religiosity
Chapter 23 Modes of Religiosity and Memory
Chapter 24 The Doctrinal Mode of Religiosity
Chapter 25 The Imagistic Mode of Religiosity
Chapter 26 Modes of Religiosity Contrasted
Chapter 27 Modes of Religiosity in the Real World
Chapter 28 The Origins of Modes of Religiosity
Part 29 Chapter Five: Ritual and Meaning in the Doctrinal Mode
Chapter 30 The Distinction Between Implicit and Explicit Memory
Chapter 31 The Theory of Representational Redescription
Chapter 32 Representational Redescription and Routinized Ritual
Chapter 33 Routinized Ritual and Exegesis
Chapter 34 Routinization, Relevance, and Revelation
Part 35 Chapter Six: Ritual and Meaning in the Imagistic Mode
Chapter 36 Emotion and Episodic Memory
Chapter 37 Episodic Memory and Ritual
Chapter 38 Episodic Memory and Spontaneous Exegetical Reflection
Chapter 39 Representational Redescription and the Imagistic Mode
Part 40 Chapter Seven: Religious Enthusiasm and Its Limits
Chapter 41 Religious Enthusiasm
Chapter 42 The Limits of Religious Enthusiasm
Part 43 PART THREE: THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL CHALLENGES
Part 44 Chapter Eight: Theoretical Challenges
Chapter 45 The Challenges
Chapter 46 Form and Frequency
Chapter 47 Selectionism or Mechanistic Causation?
Chapter 48 Arousal, Memory, and Motivation
Chapter 49 Procedural versus Exegetical Knowledge in the Domain of Ritual
Chapter 50 Historical Transformations
Part 51 Chapter Nine: Testing the Theory
Chapter 52 Predictions
Chapter 53 Evidence Needed from Ethnography, Historiography, and
Archaeology
Chapter 54 Evidence Needed from the Cognitive Sciences
Chapter 55 Epilogue: Theory, Description, and the Cognitive Science of
Religion
Chapter 56 References
Chapter 57 Index
Chapter 58 About the Author