Religion and Culture.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Why Tylor, Why Now? -- The chapters -- Part One Contexts and Debates -- 1 The Debate between E. B. Tylor and Andrew Lang over the Theory of Primitive Monotheism: Implications for Cont...
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion |
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Religion and culture
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| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Why Tylor, Why Now? -- The chapters -- Part One Contexts and Debates -- 1 The Debate between E. B. Tylor and Andrew Lang over the Theory of Primitive Monotheism: Implications for Contemporary Studies -- Tylor on primitive monotheism -- The special case of Baiame -- Tylor's response to the alleged antiquity of the Baiame belief -- Andrew Lang's critique of Tylor: primitive monotheism and the doctrine of degeneration -- The Tylor-Lang debate: an analysis -- Implications for contemporary studies of indigenous religions -- Notes -- 2 Tylor, 'Fetishes' and the Matter of Animism -- Rocks -- Kettles -- Dancing tables and shaking tents -- New turns after Tylor and Hallowell -- Towards a post-Cartesian academy -- Whose terms, whose understanding? -- Notes -- 3 'Belief in Spiritual Beings': E. B. Tylor's (Primitive) Cognitive Theory of Religion -- Tylor's minimum definition and theory of religion -- The cognitive science of religion -- CSR as a neo-Tylorian project -- The standard model of the cognitive science of religion -- Reading Tylor in the twenty-first-century laboratory -- Notes -- 4 From Nineteenth- to Twentieth-Century Theorizing about Myth in Britain and Germany: Tylor versus Blumenberg -- Tylor -- Blumenberg -- Conclusion -- 5 Tylor and Debates about the Definition of 'Religion': Then and Now -- The crisis of definition -- Tylor's definition of religion -- On definition and 'religion' -- Debates about definition in Tylor's time -- Classifying definitions in the study of religion -- Features of a Tylorian approach -- Tylorian influences on modern scholarship -- Offering a Neo-Tylorian approach -- Research applications -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part Two Tylor beyond the Canon -- 6 Edward Burnett Tylor as Ethnographer. Consumed by consumption -- Science-minded Quakers-in-arms -- Mediums and spirits -- Mexico and the Mexicans -- Anahuac's legacy -- The strange case of Dr Tylor and Dr Who -- Sound in intention -- Conclusion -- 7 'Necromancy Is a Religion': Tylor's Discussion of Spiritualism in Primitive Culture and in His Diary -- Spiritualism in Primitive Culture, Vol. I -- Spiritualism-animism in Primitive Culture, Vol. II -- Spiritualism as fieldwork: Tylor's diary -- A contemporary, comparative example of fieldwork on spiritualism -- The table turning at Stansted Hall7 -- Belief in spiritual beings and the challenge of spiritualism -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- 8 Edward Tylor, Archaeologist? The Archaeological Foundations of 'Mr Tylor's Science'1 -- Tylor, Christy and the creation of Anahuac -- Henry Christy -- Mexico and Anahuac -- Between Anahuac and Primitive Culture: developments in geology and archaeology -- Tylor and uniformitarianism -- The Three Age System -- The antiquity of man -- Mr Tylor's archaeology -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9 Telling Tylorian Tales: Reflections on Language, Myth and Religion -- Tylor on myth -- Questions on the non-empirical -- The role of myth/narrative -- 10 Deconstructing the Survival in E. B. Tylor's Primitive Culture: From Memes to Dreams and Bricolage -- Tylor's survival -- Deconstruction and the alter-Tylor of Primitive Culture -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1350003433 |