عنوان

Long-lost Brothers:

شماره

LA122787

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Long-lost Brothers:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

On the Co-histories and Interactions Between the Comparative Science of Religion and the Anthropology of Religion

نام نخستين پديدآور

Armin W. Geertz

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This article briefly surveys and compares the histories of research in the comparative science of religion (beginning with Friedrich Max Müller) and the anthropology of religion. The article notes the close interactions between these two fields and argues that the comparative science of religion drew significant inspiration from anthropology and sociology during the twentieth century until about the 1970s when anthropology came under heavy fire from critics. The postcolonial, feminist, and postmodern wave did not have a significant impact on the comparative science of religion until the 1990s. But already during the 1980s a new approach to religion, championed by Jonathan Z. Smith, contributed to a theoretical and critical analysis of religion that neither bought into postmodernism nor into the sui generis approach to religion. During the 1990s, another new approach began making an impact, namely, the cognitive science of religion, championed by E. Thomas Lawson, Robert N. McCauley (both scholars of religion), and Pascal Boyer (anthropologist). The article suggests in conclusion that the two disciplines can once again meet in the growing fields of experimental anthropology and experimental science of religion and in the need to explore and address how culture affects and rewires the brain. Furthermore, evolutionary theory is also beginning to serve as a common framework for thinking about religion. This article briefly surveys and compares the histories of research in the comparative science of religion (beginning with Friedrich Max Müller) and the anthropology of religion. The article notes the close interactions between these two fields and argues that the comparative science of religion drew significant inspiration from anthropology and sociology during the twentieth century until about the 1970s when anthropology came under heavy fire from critics. The postcolonial, feminist, and postmodern wave did not have a significant impact on the comparative science of religion until the 1990s. But already during the 1980s a new approach to religion, championed by Jonathan Z. Smith, contributed to a theoretical and critical analysis of religion that neither bought into postmodernism nor into the sui generis approach to religion. During the 1990s, another new approach began making an impact, namely, the cognitive science of religion, championed by E. Thomas Lawson, Robert N. McCauley (both scholars of religion), and Pascal Boyer (anthropologist). The article suggests in conclusion that the two disciplines can once again meet in the growing fields of experimental anthropology and experimental science of religion and in the need to explore and address how culture affects and rewires the brain. Furthermore, evolutionary theory is also beginning to serve as a common framework for thinking about religion.

تاريخ نشر

2014

توصيف ظاهري

255-280

عنوان

Numen

شماره جلد

61/2-3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5276

اصطلاح موضوعی

anthropology of religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

cognitive science of religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

comparative science of religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

evolution

اصطلاح موضوعی

history of religions

اصطلاح موضوعی

method

اصطلاح موضوعی

psychology

اصطلاح موضوعی

sociology

اصطلاح موضوعی

theory

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Armin W. Geertz

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685276-12341319

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y