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" Religious speciation : "
Ina Wunn, Davina Grojnowski.
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860332
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Wunn, Ina
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Religious speciation : : how religions evolve /\ Ina Wunn, Davina Grojnowski.
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Cham, Switzerland :: Springer,, [2018]
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New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion ;; volume 6
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1 online resource (viii, 280 pages)
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3030044351
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3030044343
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9783030044343
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Intro; Contents; Chapter 1: Before We Embark on Our Discovery ... ; 1.1 How It All Began; 1.2 Models of Evolution; 1.3 The Evolution of Religions -- A Desideratum; 1.4 Ad Usum Delphini; 1.5 How to Read This Book; References; Chapter 2: Evolution -- What Is It?; 2.1 Evolution -- The Big Misunderstanding; 2.2 Nature's Order; 2.3 The Historicisation of Nature; 2.4 Fossils and Systematics; 2.5 The Discovery of Evolutionary Mechanisms; 2.6 The Issue of Hereditary Transmission; 2.7 The Evolving Unit; 2.8 What Is Evolution and How Should We Imagine a Model of Religious Evolution?; 2.9 Preliminary Consequences References; Chapter 3: Why a "Darwinian" Approach on Religious Evolution?; 3.1 Evolutionary Approaches on Religion; 3.2 The Success of Cognitive Approaches; 3.3 More than an Excursus: The Driving Forces Behind Hominization; 3.4 The Evolution of Religions -- Only of Religions; References; Chapter 4: Absolute Prerequisite: Systematics and the Natural Evolving Unit; 4.1 Religion as a Taxon -- On the Trail of Linné; 4.2 The Species -- A Brief Review; 4.3 The Evolving Unit; 4.4 An Example from Religious Studies Research: A Genealogical Tree of India's Religions; 4.5 An Interim Summary -- References; Chapter 5: The Taxon Religion; 5.1 What Is Evolution and What Is Not?; 5.2 The Individual Religion as a Taxonomic Unit and Brain-to-Brain Coupling; 5.3 Religion as Taxon -- A Different Characterisation; 5.4 The Religious Information Capital of the Individual Religious Communities -- Examples; 5.5 The Religious Information Capital of the Individual Communities -- Why This Is So Important; 5.6 Heterozygous (Hybrid) Religions; 5.7 Spontaneous Changes (Mutations); References; Chapter 6: Variability; 6.1 An Interim Summary; 6.2 Varieties and the Recombination of Information Units: Development of Shia6.3 On Mutations; 6.4 Varieties in Judaism: The Fate of Its Communities; 6.5 The Taxon Christianity and the Development of Varieties; 6.6 When and How Varieties Develop -- An Attempted Systematisation; 6.7 Restless Times and the Collapse of Isolation Mechanisms; 6.8 A Brief Summary; References; Chapter 7: Selection; 7.1 What We Already Know ... ; 7.2 The Selection Term in the Humanities and in Biology; 7.3 For the Sake of Completeness: Concepts of Selection in Recent Anthropological and Religious Studies Research; 7.4 The Babylonian Exile and the Competition Between the Merchants of Meaning7.5 The Successor of God's Messenger and Selection; 7.6 Selection and Dogma: Christianity; 7.7 Religious Selection Is Multilevel Selection; References; Chapter 8: Religions and Their Environment; 8.1 Historically; 8.2 Religion, Environment, and the Eco-System; 8.3 Religions, Evolution, and the Role of the Environment; 8.4 Judaism and Its Changing Environments; 8.5 Christianity and Its Changing Environments; 8.6 Islam's Environment; 8.7 Environment and Selection; References; Chapter 9: Adaptation, Fitness, and Empty Niches
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This book presents a consecutive story on the evolution of religions. It starts with an analysis of evolution in biology and ends with a discussion of what a proper theory of religious evolution should look like. It discusses such questions as whether it is humankind or religion that evolves, how religions evolve, and what adaptation of religions means. Topics examined include inheritance and heredity, religio-speciation, hybridization, ontogenetics and epigenetics, phylogenetics, and systematics. Calling attention to unsolved problems and relating the evolutionary subject matter to appropriate material, the book integrates and interprets existing data. Based on the belief that an unequivocal stand is more likely to produce constructive criticism than evasion of an issue, the book chooses that interpretation of a controversial matter which seems most consistent with the emerging picture of the evolutionary process. "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution," the evolutionary biologist and co-founder of the so-called New Synthesis in Evolutionary Biology, Theodosius Dobszhansky (1900-1975), wrote in his famous essay of 1973, opposing creationism in American society. Today, Dobszhanskys statement is not only fully accepted in biology, but has become the scientific paradigm in disciplines such as psychology, archaeology and the study of religions. Yet in spite of this growing interest in evolutionary processes in religion and culture, the term "evolution" and the capability of an evolutionary account have to date still not been properly understood by scholars of the Humanities. This book closes that gap.
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Evolution-- Religious aspects.
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Religions-- Classification.
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Evolution-- Religious aspects.
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Religions.
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201.4
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BL350.W86 2018
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Grojnowski, Davina
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