Overview
In a Darwinian world, religious behavior - just like other behaviors - is likely to have undergone a process of natural selection in which it was rewarded in the evolutionary currency of reproductive success. This book aims to provide a better understanding of the social scenarios in which selection pressure led to religious practices becoming an evolved human trait, i.e. an adaptive answer to the conditions of living and surviving that prevailed among our prehistoric ancestors. This aim is pursued by a team of expert authors from a range of disciplines. Their contributions examine the relevant physiological, emotional, cognitive and social processes. The resulting understanding of the functional interplay of these processes gives valuable insights into the biological roots and benefits of religion.
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Author: Eckart Voland , Wulf Schiefenhövel
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition: 2009 ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.698kg
ISBN: 9783642001277
ISBN 10: 3642001270
Pages: 305
Publication Date: 02 September 2009
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
Evaluating the Evolutionary Status of Religiosity and Religiousnessreligiousness .- Gods, Gains, and Genes.- How Some Major Components of Religion Could Have Evolved by Natural Selection?.- The Correlated History of Social Organization, Moralitymorality , and Religion.- Is There a Particular Role for Ideational Aspects of Religions in Human Behavioral Ecology?.- Talk and Tradition: Why the Least Interesting Components of Religion May Be the Most Evolutionarily Important.- The Reproductive Benefits of Religious Affiliation.- The African Interregnum: The “Where,” “When,” and “Why” of the Evolution of Religion.- Explaining the Inexplicable: Traditional and Syncretistic Religiosity in Melanesia.- Authoritarianism,Religiousness,religiousness and Conservatismconservatism : Is “Obedience to Authority” the Explanation for Their Clustering, Universality and Evolution?.- Cognitive Foundations in the Development of a Religious Mind.- Religious Belief and Neurocognitive Processes of the Self.- Neurologic Constraints on Evolutionary Theories of Religion.- On Shared Psychological Mechanisms of Religiousnessreligiousness and Delusional Beliefs.- Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity.- The Religious System as Adaptive: Cognitive Flexibility, Public Displays, and Acceptance.- The Evolution of Evolutionary Theories of Religion.- Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion – What They Can and What They Cannot Explain (Yet).
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Aus den Rezensionen: ""... Das Buch mit ... Beitragen aus den verschiedenen Disziplinen ... versucht ... erste Antworte zu geben. ... sind die in diesen Beitragen gegebenen ersten Antworten sehr instruktiv und legen eine positive Beantwortung ! erst einmal nahe. Wie es der Klappentext formuliert, geben die verschiedenen analysierten Prozesse und ihr Zusammenwirken einen fundierten Einblick ... bieten die lesenswerten Beitrage ... Stoff zum intensiven eigenen Nachdenken und zu einer notwendigen Diskussion auf einer breiten gesellschaftlichen Basis ..."" (PD. Dr. Stefan Schneckenburger, in: evo-magazin.de, February/2011)
Aus den Rezensionen: ... Das Buch mit ... Beitragen aus den verschiedenen Disziplinen ... versucht ... erste Antworte zu geben. ... sind die in diesen Beitragen gegebenen ersten Antworten sehr instruktiv und legen eine positive Beantwortung ! erst einmal nahe. Wie es der Klappentext formuliert, geben die verschiedenen analysierten Prozesse und ihr Zusammenwirken einen fundierten Einblick ... bieten die lesenswerten Beitrage ... Stoff zum intensiven eigenen Nachdenken und zu einer notwendigen Diskussion auf einer breiten gesellschaftlichen Basis ... (PD. Dr. Stefan Schneckenburger, in: evo-magazin.de, February/2011)
Aus den Rezensionen: ... Das Buch mit ... Beitragen aus den verschiedenen Disziplinen ... versucht ... erste Antworte zu geben. ... sind die in diesen Beitragen gegebenen ersten Antworten sehr instruktiv und legen eine positive Beantwortung ! erst einmal nahe. Wie es der Klappentext formuliert, geben die verschiedenen analysierten Prozesse und ihr Zusammenwirken einen fundierten Einblick ... bieten die lesenswerten Beitrage ... Stoff zum intensiven eigenen Nachdenken und zu einer notwendigen Diskussion auf einer breiten gesellschaftlichen Basis ... (PD. Dr. Stefan Schneckenburger, in: evo-magazin.de, February/2011)
Author Information
Wulf Schiefenhovel is professor for medical psychology and ethnomedicine at the University of Munich and head of the human ethology group at the Max-Planck-Institute in Andechs, Germany. His main research interests are human ethology and evolutionary medicine, within which he focuses on sexuality and reproduction, human birth behavior, early infancy, language and cognitive concepts as well as the genetic and oral history of Melanesian populations Eckart Voland is professor for philosophy of life sciences at the University of Giessen, Germany. His main research interests are human sociobiology and behavioral ecology. In particular he is interested in the biological evolution of social and reproductive strategies in humans. Moreover, in pursuing the project of naturalizing the human mind and its achievements, he works on the philosophical implications of evolutionary anthropology as reflected in evolutionary ethics and aesthetics.
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