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New Patterns for Comparative Religion: Passages to an Evolutionary Perspective
Contributor(s): Paden, William E. (Author), Wiebe, Donald (Editor), Martin, Luther H. (Editor)
ISBN: 1350057894     ISBN-13: 9781350057890
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE:   $47.47  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Religion & Science
- Religion | Comparative Religion
- Religion | History
Dewey: 210
Series: Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.82 lbs) 264 pages
 
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The cross-cultural study of religion has always gone hand in hand with the worldview, sciences, or intellectual frameworks of the time. These frames, whether focused on psychology or politics, gender or colonialism, bring out perspectives for understanding religious behavior. Today one of our common civic worldviews is represented in the shift from scriptural to evolutionary history.

This volume brings together in one place key essays by professor emeritus William Paden, showing a progression of steps he has taken in exploring bridgeworks between comparative religion and evolutionary models of religious behavior. One of the leading scholars in religious studies, Paden shows ways that religion can be contextualized as part of the natural world and thus seen as reflecting the ingrained sociality and world-making drive of the human species.

Paden argues that although comparativism has been challenged as too culture-bound, too western, or too gendered, cross-over categories and concepts between religious traditions cannot be avoided. Arguing that there are recurrent patterns of human behavior common to our species and that thereby underlie all cultures, he proposes that the missing link in the Religion Evolution debate is comparative religion, a global, cross-cultural perspective on religious behaviours throughout time. Each article is contextualized within this overall trajectory of thought within Paden's work and the history of the discipline as a whole.


Contributor Bio(s): Paden, William E.: - William E. Paden is Professor Emeritus of Religion, University Vermont, USA.Wiebe, Donald: - Donald Wiebe is Professor of Religion, Trinity College, University of Toronto, Canada.Martin, Luther H.: - Luther H. Martin is Professor of Religion Emeritus at the University of Vermont, USA.McCorkle Jr, William W.: - William W. McCorkle is Associate Professor and Research Specialist at the Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion and Ritual, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.Slone, D. Jason: - D. Jason Sloane is Associate Professor of Cognition and Culture at the School of Arts and Sciences, Tiffin University, USA.Kundt, Radek: - Radek Kundt is Assistant Professor in the Department for the Study of Religions, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. He is also a Research Fellow at the LEVYNA Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.