Istvan Czachesz, Risto Uro

Mind, Morality and Magic (eBook, ePUB)

Cognitive Science Approaches in Biblical Studies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores how cognitive approaches to religion can shed light on classical concerns in biblical scholarship as well as uncover new questions and offer new methodologies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317544401
• Artikelnr.: 42154314

Autorenporträt

Istvan Czachesz, Risto Uro

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. The Cognitive Science of Religion: A New Alternative in Biblical Studies
Istvan Czachesz & Risto Uro 2. Past Minds: Evolution
Cognition and Biblical Studies
Luther H. Martin Part I: Memory and the Transmission of Biblical Traditons 3. How Religions Remember: Memory Theories in Biblical Studies and in the Cognitive Study of Religion
Petri Luomanen 4. Rethinking Biblical Transmission: Insights from the Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory
Istvan Czachesz 5. The Interface of Ritual and Writing in the Transmission of Early Christian Traditions
Risto Uro 6. Computer Modeling of Cognitive Processes in Biblical Studies: The Primacy of Urban Christianity as a Test Case
Istvan Czachesz & Anders Lisdorf 7. "I was El Shaddai
but now I'm Yahweh": God Names and the Informational Dynamics of Biblical Texts
Gabriel Levy Part II: Ritual and Magic 8. Is Judaism Boring? On the Lack of Counterintuitive Agents in Jewish Rituals
Tamas Biro 9. Ritual System in the Qumran Movement: Frequency
Boredom and Balance
Jutta Jokiranta 10. A Cognitive Perspective on Magic in the New Testament
Istvan Czachesz 11. From Corpse Impurity to Relic Veneration: New Light from Cognitive and Psychological Studies
Risto Uro Part III: Altruism
Morality
and Cooperation 12. Why Do Religious Cultures Evolve Slowly? The Cultural Evolution of Cooperative Calling and the Historical Study of Religions
Joseph Bulbulia
Quentin Atkinson
Russell Gray & Simon Greenhill 13. Empathy and Ethics: Bodily Emotion as Basis for Moral Admonition
Thomas Kazen 12. A Socio-Cognitive Perspective on Identity and Behavioral Norms in Ephesians
Rikard Roitto 13. Emotion
Cognition
and Social Change: A Consideration of Galatians 3:28
Colleen Shantz Notes Bibliography