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Theorizing Religions Past
Archaeology, History, and Cognition
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2004
Summary
Historians bound by their singular stories and archaeologists bound by their material evidence donOt typically seek out broad comparative theories of religion. But recently Harvey WhitehouseOs Omodes of religiosityO theory has been attracting many scholars of past religions. Based upon universal features of human cognition, WhitehouseOs theory can provide useful comparisons across cultures and historical periods even when limited cultural data is present. In this groundbreaking volume scholars of cultures from prehistorical hunter-gatherers to 19th century Scandinavian Lutherans evaluate WhitehouseOs hypothesis that all religions tend toward either an imagistic or a doctrinal mode depending on how they are remembered and transmitted. Theorizing Religions Past provides valuable insights for all historians of religion and especially for those interested in a new cognitive method for studying the past.
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Copyright year
2004
ISBN-Print
978-0-7591-0620-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7591-1535-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
249
Product type
Edited Book
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Dedication No access
CONTENTS No access
Preface No access
CHAPTER I The Wedding of Psychology, Ethnography, and History: Methodological Bigamy or Tripartite Free Love? E.THOMAS LAWSON No access
CHAPTER 2 Toward a Scientific History of Religions LUTHER H. MARTIN No access
CHAPTER 3 From Ohalo to Çatalhöyük: The Development of Religiosity during the Early Prehistory of Western Asia, 20,000―7000 BCE STEVEN MITHEN No access
CHAPTER 4 Primary Emergence of the Doctrinal Mode of Religiosity in Prehistoric Southwestern Iran KAREN JOHNSON No access
CHAPTER 5 Old and New in Roman Religion: A Cognitive Account DOUGLAS L. GRAGG No access
CHAPTER 6 Four Men, Two Sticks, and a Whip: Image and Doctrine in a Mithraic Ritual ROGER BECK No access
CHAPTER 7 Syncretism and the Interaction of Modes of Religiosity: A Formative Perspective on Gnostic-Christian Movements in Late Antiquity ANITA MARIA LEOPOLD No access
CHAPTER 8 Testing the Two Modes Theory: Christian Practice in the Later Middle Ages ANNE L. CLARK No access
CHAPTER 9 Modes of Religiosity and Changes in Popular Religious Practices at the Time of the Reformation TED VIAL No access
CHAPTER 10 Modes of Religiosity and Types of Conversion in Medieval Europe and Modern Africa ULRICH BERNER No access
CHAPTER II Corrupt Doctrine and Doctrinal Revival: On the Nature and Limits of the Modes Theory ILKKA PYYSIÄINEN No access
CHAPTER 12 Critical Reflections on the Modes of Religiosity Argument DONALD WIEBE No access
CHAPTER 13 Theorizing Religions Past HARVEY WHITEHOUSE No access
