Homo Religiosus?

Homo Religiosus?
Author: Timothy Samuel Shah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2018-01-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1108422357

Examines whether religion is natural to human experience, and whether this helps to ground a universal right to religious freedom.

Homo Religiosus?

Homo Religiosus?
Author: Timothy Samuel Shah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2018-01-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1108395147

Are humans naturally predisposed to religion and supernatural beliefs? If so, does this naturalness provide a moral foundation for religious freedom? This volume offers a cross-disciplinary approach to these questions, engaging in a range of contemporary debates at the intersection of religion, cognitive science, sociology, anthropology, political science, epistemology, and moral philosophy. The contributors to this original and important volume present individual, sometimes opposing points of view on the naturalness of religion thesis and its implications for religious freedom. Topics include the epistemological foundations of religion, the relationship between religion and health, and a discussion of the philosophical foundations of religious freedom as a natural, universal right, drawing implications for the normative role of religion in public life. By challenging dominant intellectual paradigms, such as the secularization thesis and the Enlightenment view of religion, the volume opens the door to a powerful and provocative reconceptualization of religious freedom.

Homo Religiosus?

Homo Religiosus?
Author: Timothy Samuel Shah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2018-01-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1108397182

Are humans naturally predisposed to religion and supernatural beliefs? If so, does this naturalness provide a moral foundation for religious freedom? This volume offers a cross-disciplinary approach to these questions, engaging in a range of contemporary debates at the intersection of religion, cognitive science, sociology, anthropology, political science, epistemology, and moral philosophy. The contributors to this original and important volume present individual, sometimes opposing points of view on the naturalness of religion thesis and its implications for religious freedom. Topics include the epistemological foundations of religion, the relationship between religion and health, and a discussion of the philosophical foundations of religious freedom as a natural, universal right, drawing implications for the normative role of religion in public life. By challenging dominant intellectual paradigms, such as the secularization thesis and the Enlightenment view of religion, the volume opens the door to a powerful and provocative reconceptualization of religious freedom.

Homo Religiosus

Homo Religiosus
Author: Robert Towler
Publisher: London : Constable
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1974
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

The Sacred and the Profane

The Sacred and the Profane
Author: Mircea Eliade
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1959
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780156792011

Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times in terms of space, time, nature, and the cosmos. In doing so he shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares with that of the nonreligious. This book serves as an excellent introduction to the history of religion, but its perspective also emcompasses philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and psychology. It will appeal to anyone seeking to discover the potential dimensions of human existence. -- P. [4] of cover.

Virtue and Meaning

Virtue and Meaning
Author: David McPherson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2020-01-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1108477887

Argues that any adequate neo-Aristotelian virtue ethic must account for our distinctive nature as the meaning-seeking animal.

Homo Symbolicus

Homo Symbolicus
Author: Christopher S. Henshilwood
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2011-11-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9027211892

The emergence of symbolic culture, classically identified with the European cave paintings of the Ice Age, is now seen, in the light of recent groundbreaking discoveries, as a complex nonlinear process taking root in a remote past and in different regions of the planet. In this book the archaeologists responsible for some of these new discoveries, flanked by ethologists interested in primate cognition and cultural transmission, evolutionary psychologists modelling the emergence of metarepresentations, as well as biologists, philosophers, neuro-scientists and an astronomer combine their research findings. Their results call into question our very conception of human nature and animal behaviour, and they create epistemological bridges between disciplines that build the foundations for a novel vision of our lineage's cultural trajectory and the processes that have led to the emergence of human societies as we know them.