Functionality of religion in the contemporary culture
Religion and religious components were and are commonly shared probably in the entire world. It is worth to ask about the origin of their ubiquity. Cognitive Science of Religion explains their cross culture ubiquity in terms of by-product of cognition. Consequently, cognitive account excludes any fu...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Polish |
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Polskie Towarzyrtwo Religioznawcze
2015
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Przegla̜d religioznawczy
Year: 2015, Issue: 4/258, Pages: 147-155 |
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| Summary: | Religion and religious components were and are commonly shared probably in the entire world. It is worth to ask about the origin of their ubiquity. Cognitive Science of Religion explains their cross culture ubiquity in terms of by-product of cognition. Consequently, cognitive account excludes any functionality of religion. However, it seems almost impossible to exclude any pragmatic application of religion and religious components. Here I show that religion was and is also today pragmatic and functional cultural phenomenon. Although religious components have played adaptive role especially in the past, they can work as adaptation or adaptive traits also in the current secularized culture. |
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| ISSN: | 2658-1531 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Przegla̜d religioznawczy
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