Religious Speciation How Religions Evolve /

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 re...

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1. Verfasser: Wunn, Ina (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schriftenreihe:New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion , 6
Schlagworte:
Religion.
Ethnology.
Social sciences.
ISBN:9783030044350
ISSN:2367-3494 ;
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Chapter 1. Nothing makes sense except in the light of evolution... (State of research and critique of current evolutionary accounts in the Study of Religions)
  • Chapter 2. What is Evolution? (An analysis of biological evolution.)
  • Chapter 3. What does evolve? Humankind or Religion Itself? (That means: Is religion a by-product of our brain and is religion adaptive? Or are we in search for a theory of how religion itself evolves? These are very different questions!)
  • Chapter 4. The question of the evolving unit. (What is the equivalent of the "species")
  • Chapter 5. How do religions evolve? (The search for the driving forces behind religious evolution: variability and selection)
  • Chapter 6. The adaptation of a religion - what does it mean?
  • Chapter 7. The "Natural environment" and the evolving religion (What is the environment to which an evolving religion has to adapt? - see our discussion in: Wunn & Grojnowski: "Ancestors, Territoriality, and Gods", Springer 2016)
  • Chapter 8. Inheritance among religions (What does the term "heredity" mean - as far as religions are concerned?)
  • Chapter 9. Religio-speciation
  • Chapter 10. Hybridization (What happens when two religions influence each other and become one?)
  • Chapter 11. Ontogenetics and Epigenetics: Religions and the short-term adaptation to a changing environment
  • Chapter 12. Phylogenetics or: a Tree of Life for religions
  • Chapter 13. Systematics: How are the historical and recent religions related to each other?
  • Chapter 14. The evolution of Judeo-Christian religion (an example. Also possible: The evolution of the religions of the Indian Subcontinent).

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