Evolutionary, Cognitive, and Contextual Approaches to the Study of Religious Systems: A Proposition of Synthesis
The explanatory gap between the life sciences and the humanities that is present in the study of human phenomena impedes productive interdisciplinary examination that such a complex subject requires. Manifested as epistemological tensions over reductionism vs. holism, nature vs. nurture, and the stu...
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 32, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-46 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Kognitive Religionswissenschaft
/ Religious sociology
/ Theory of evolution
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RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion |
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Religion
B Ritual B Complex Adaptive Systems B Evolution B Cognition B the humanities and the sciences B Mechanism |
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