Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
Talk to a cultural sociologist about human evolution, and you might think that you are talking to a Christian fundamentalist. Culturally sophisticated social scientists—and those who study religion tend to number among them—are historically wary of human evolution, not only for the normative and tel...
| Published in: | Sociology of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2013
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2013, Volume: 74, Issue: 3, Pages: 416-417 |
| Review of: | Religion in human evolution (Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 2011) (Guhin, Jeffrey)
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| Summary: | Talk to a cultural sociologist about human evolution, and you might think that you are talking to a Christian fundamentalist. Culturally sophisticated social scientists—and those who study religion tend to number among them—are historically wary of human evolution, not only for the normative and teleological undertones such talk conveys, but also for the scientistic colonization an evolutionary frame might bring. Sure, such a social scientist might say, evolution's true, but it is not relevant. Since his famous 1964 American Sociological Review article, Robert Bellah has attempted to revive this relevance. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srt025 |