An Unnatural History of Religions: Academia, Post-Truth and the Quest for Scientific Knowledge

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface: Ghosts, Post- truth Despair and Brandolini's Law -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Text -- 1 An Incoherent Contradiction -- A geological divide -- Mapping the pro...

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Main Author: Ambasciano, Leonardo (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: London Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2018
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Series/Journal:Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation Ser
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Parallel Edition:Print version: Ambasciano, Leonardo: An Unnatural History of Religions : Academia, Post-Truth and the Quest for Scientific Knowledge. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,c2018. - 9781350062382

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520 |a Italy, 1910s-1950s: Pettazzoni's revolutionary rebuttal -- Italy, 1920s-1930s: Pettazzoni's two-fold gamble -- 1950: The foundation of the IAHR and the defeat of science -- 5 Eliadology -- Neither with you nor without you: Mircea Eliade -- Eliade, 1920s-1980s: From Romanian post-truth to American New Age -- The sacred from the Stone Age to the present and back again -- Schmidt's 'stupendous learning and industry' -- An epistemic twilight: Pseudoscience and esotericism -- Shamanism, 1200s-1800s: Heretics, noble savages, (super)heroes -- Shamanism, 1937-1946: Eliadean superpowers -- Shamanism, 1951-1970s: the Eliadean synthesis -- Resolving 'The problem of shamanism': An unwarranted answer to a non-existent question -- 6 The Demolition of the Status Quo -- Point of (k)no(w) return: The politics of the Eliadean HoR -- Sexist biases and gender issues: Eliade's tunnel vision -- Dismantling homo religiosus : Rita M. Gross -- Dismantling the Eliadean research programme: Henry Pernet -- Dismantling the primacy of shamanism: Mac Linscott Ricketts -- Dismantling phenomenological morphology: Ioan P. Culianu -- Dismantling classification: Jonathan Z. Smith -- Dismantling right-wing ideology: Bruce Lincoln -- New generations, poststructuralism and Religious Studies -- Be careful what you wish for: Postmodernism -- From Deconstruction to New Realism -- 7 The Cognitive (R)evolution: The End? -- Post-truth rules -- What is science, anyway? -- Forgotten forerunners: Baldwin's evolutionary epistemology -- Forgotten forerunners: Harrison's evolutionary psychology -- Forgotten forerunners: Macalister's invention of tradition -- Disappearing without a trace -- The Dark Ages: Psychoanalysis, behaviourism and cultural anthropology -- Modern trail-blazers, 1950s-1990s: The slow Renaissance of science -- Cognition, 2000s: Back to a natural history of religion 
520 |a Cognition, 2010s: More than meets the eye -- Learning from your mistakes: The usefulness of scientific 'false views' -- A short-lived success? The inevitable rise of 'false facts' -- Epilogue: The Night of Pseudoscience -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index 
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