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Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture: Image and Word in the Mind of Narrative

'Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture' brings together some of the world's leading scholars in the fields of cognitive science and comparative religion. The essays range across diverse fields: the neurological processes and possible genetic foundations of how language emerged; the possible phylogenetic routes in the development of language and culture; the complex interrelations between the ontogenesis and the sociogenesis of cognitive processes; the value of a combination of neurology, narratology and a reworked speech-act approach that focuses on narrative; how the psychology of ritual helps make narrative beliefs possible; religious narratives; emotional communication; the role of gossip as religious narrative; area studies of religious narrative and cognition in the Bible; Indian Epic literature; Australian Aboriginal mythology and ritual; modern religious forms such as New Age, Asatro, astrological narrative and virtual rituals in cyberspace.

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Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture: Image and Word in the Mind of Narrative

'Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture' brings together some of the world's leading scholars in the fields of cognitive science and comparative religion. The essays range across diverse fields: the neurological processes and possible genetic foundations of how language emerged; the possible phylogenetic routes in the development of language and culture; the complex interrelations between the ontogenesis and the sociogenesis of cognitive processes; the value of a combination of neurology, narratology and a reworked speech-act approach that focuses on narrative; how the psychology of ritual helps make narrative beliefs possible; religious narratives; emotional communication; the role of gossip as religious narrative; area studies of religious narrative and cognition in the Bible; Indian Epic literature; Australian Aboriginal mythology and ritual; modern religious forms such as New Age, Asatro, astrological narrative and virtual rituals in cyberspace.

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Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture: Image and Word in the Mind of Narrative

Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture: Image and Word in the Mind of Narrative

Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture: Image and Word in the Mind of Narrative

Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture: Image and Word in the Mind of Narrative

Overview

'Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture' brings together some of the world's leading scholars in the fields of cognitive science and comparative religion. The essays range across diverse fields: the neurological processes and possible genetic foundations of how language emerged; the possible phylogenetic routes in the development of language and culture; the complex interrelations between the ontogenesis and the sociogenesis of cognitive processes; the value of a combination of neurology, narratology and a reworked speech-act approach that focuses on narrative; how the psychology of ritual helps make narrative beliefs possible; religious narratives; emotional communication; the role of gossip as religious narrative; area studies of religious narrative and cognition in the Bible; Indian Epic literature; Australian Aboriginal mythology and ritual; modern religious forms such as New Age, Asatro, astrological narrative and virtual rituals in cyberspace.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781845532956
Publisher: Acumen Publishing
Publication date: 10/30/2011
Series: Religion, Cognition And Culture Series
Pages: 348
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Armin W. Geertz is Professor in the History of Religions at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He is editor of several monograph series, the author of over 300 publications and is on the editorial board of many leading journals in the academic study of religion. Recent books include New Approaches in the Study of Religion, edited together with Peter Antes and Randi Warne, (Berlin 2004): Volume 1: Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches, Volume 2: Textual, Comparative, Sociological, and Cognitive Approaches. Jeppe Sinding Jensen is Associate Professor in the Study of Religion, University of Aarhus, Denmark. His publications include Rationality and the Study of Religion (Routledge 2002, with Luther H. Martin), The Study of Religion in a New Key (Aarhus University Press 2003), Syncretism in Religion: A Reader (Equinox, 2004, with Anita Leopold) and Myths and Mythologies: A Reader (Equinox, 2009).

Table of Contents

Armin W. Geertz & Jeppe Sinding Jensen: Introduction Theoretical Perspectives Chapter 1. Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture: Approaches and Definitions

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