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Contemporary theories of religion : a critical companion /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Stausberg, Michael
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Subjects:
Religion.
Table of 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 and 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 and Marcus Frean
  • Roots in the brain: on David Lewis-Williams and David Pierce, 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.