Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and CultureCambridge University Press, 14. sij 1993. - Broj stranica: 194 This book develops a cognitive approach to religion. Focusing particularly on ritual action, it borrows analytical methods from linguistics and other cognitive sciences. The authors provide a lucid, critical review of established approaches to the study of religion, and make a strong plea for the combination of interpretation and explanation. Often represented as competitive approaches, they are, rather, complementary and equally vital to the study of symbolic systems. Rethinking Religion deals with the relationship between cognition and culture in a novel manner, and introduces a method of analysis that will have many applications. |
Sadržaj
Interpretation and explanation problems and promise in the study of religion | 12 |
three accounts | 14 |
Exclusivism | 15 |
Indusivism | 18 |
Interactionism | 22 |
Three theories of religion | 32 |
II Intellectualism | 33 |
III Symbolism | 37 |
Two complications | 96 |
The object agency filter | 98 |
Ritual alterations of objects | 102 |
Ritual implication of the superhuman | 110 |
A further illustration | 113 |
IV Universal principles of religious ritual structure | 121 |
Substantive and formal universals | 122 |
Functional universals | 123 |
IV Structuralism | 41 |
V Conclusion | 43 |
Ritual as language | 45 |
II Ritual as performative utterance | 51 |
III Ritual as the communication of information | 54 |
IV Ritual as formal system | 56 |
A cognitive approach to symboliccultural systems | 60 |
II On the status of linguistic theory | 61 |
III A cognitive approach to cultural materials | 68 |
IV In defense of a cognitive approach to religious ritual acts | 77 |
Outline of a theory of religious ritual systems | 84 |
II Action elements and formation rules | 87 |
III Applications and illustrations | 95 |
Semantics and ritual systems | 137 |
II Semiotic ghosts and reflexive holism in semantics | 138 |
III Holism with multiple models | 148 |
IV Comments on the semantics of religious ritual systems | 157 |
V Staal and ritualization | 166 |
Connecting the cognitive and the cultural | 170 |
II The theory of religious ritual systems and explanation | 172 |
III Structural explanation | 177 |
IV An integrated approach to cognitive and cultural systems | 180 |
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