New Patterns for Comparative Religion
Passages to an Evolutionary Perspective.
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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.
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.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part one – Rethinking and Redirecting Classical Resources
Chapter 1. Before 'The Sacred' Became Theological: Rereading the Durkheimian Legacy
Chapter 2. Durkheim's Reconciliation of the Social and the Religious
Chapter 3. Sacred Order
Chapter 4. World
Chapter 5. The Concept of World Habitation: Eliadean Linkages with a New Comparativism
Part two – Some New Levels for Cross-Cultural Patterns
Chapter 6. Elements of a New Comparativism
Chapter 7. Universals Revisited: Human Behaviors and Cultural Variations
Chapter 8. Theaters of Worldmaking Behaviors: Panhuman Contexts for Comparative Religion
Chapter 9. Comparison in the Study of Religion
Part 3 – Responses to Evolutionary Sciences
Chapter 10. Connecting with Evolutionary Models: New Patterns in Comparative Religion
Chapter 11. Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion
Chapter 12. The Prestige of the Gods: Evolutionary Continuities in the Formation of Sacred Objects
Chapter 13. The History of Religions and Evolutionary Models: Some Reflections on Framing a Mediating Vocabulary
Epilogue
Notes
Introduction
Part one – Rethinking and Redirecting Classical Resources
Chapter 1. Before 'The Sacred' Became Theological: Rereading the Durkheimian Legacy
Chapter 2. Durkheim's Reconciliation of the Social and the Religious
Chapter 3. Sacred Order
Chapter 4. World
Chapter 5. The Concept of World Habitation: Eliadean Linkages with a New Comparativism
Part two – Some New Levels for Cross-Cultural Patterns
Chapter 6. Elements of a New Comparativism
Chapter 7. Universals Revisited: Human Behaviors and Cultural Variations
Chapter 8. Theaters of Worldmaking Behaviors: Panhuman Contexts for Comparative Religion
Chapter 9. Comparison in the Study of Religion
Part 3 – Responses to Evolutionary Sciences
Chapter 10. Connecting with Evolutionary Models: New Patterns in Comparative Religion
Chapter 11. Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion
Chapter 12. The Prestige of the Gods: Evolutionary Continuities in the Formation of Sacred Objects
Chapter 13. The History of Religions and Evolutionary Models: Some Reflections on Framing a Mediating Vocabulary
Epilogue
Notes
Reviews
“The essays selected for this volume invite the readers to join a series of engaging conversations with key theoretical questions in the study of religion\s. These forays into various theoretical environments avoid hegemonic discourse, opening up interrelated perspectives on important aspects of the eco-sphere of religion.” – Michael Stausberg, Professor of Religion, University of Bergen, Norway,
“This remarkable set of essays recounts Paden's efforts to renew the comparative study of religion by placing his earlier emphasis on world making on an evolutionary footing. In focusing on behavior as a bridge between disciplines and recasting “worlds” as environmental “niches,” he points the way to a more robust comparativism.” – Ann Taves, Professor of Religious Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
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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.
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