Religious Speciation How Religions Evolve /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Wunn, Ina (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Grojnowski, Davina (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion , 6
• Θέματα: Religion.; Ethnology.; Social sciences.; Religious Studies, general.; Social Anthropology.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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).