Mittwoch, 23. April 2025

Religion - Hintergründe und Funktionen: Religionstheorien des 21. Jahrhunderts

 

Michael Stausberg (ed.): 

Vgl.: Religion und Religionen - Allgemeines und Einführungen (Ein-Sichten)

ABSTRACT
What is religion and how does it originate? What are its functions and how does it work? These are some of the key questions addressed by theories of religion. Far from being a past concern, a series of new answers have been proposed since the beginning of our present millennium by evolutionary biologists and psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, and scholars of religion.
In 21st Century Theories of Religion, Michael Stausberg is joined by leading scholars from Europe and North America to present and critically discuss fifteen contemporary theories. Contributions introduce the theoreticians, unpack their arguments, review their reception, and engage in critical debates. The volume provides a cutting-edge point of entry into a key conversation that no student and scholar of religion/s can afford to ignore.

chapter 1|31 pages

On theories of religion

Varieties, distinctions, questions

chapter 2|15 pages

A rational choice-based theory of religion

On Rodney Stark and Roger Finke, Acts of Faith (2000)

chapter 3|19 pages

Religion as differentiated communication

On Niklas Luhmann, A Systems Theory of Religion ([2000] 2013)

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chapter 4|21 pages

Religion as the unintended product of brain functions in the ‘standard cognitive science of religion model’

On Pascal Boyer, Religion Explained (2001) and The Fracture of an Illusion (2010)

chapter 5|18 pages

The United States of Religion

On David Sloan Wilson, Darwin's Cathedral (2002)

chapter 6|16 pages

Religion as a costly but beneficial evolutionary by-product

On Scott Atran, In Gods We Trust (2002)

chapter 7|17 pages

Routes, flow, and homemaking

On Thomas A. Tweed, Crossing and Dwelling (2006)

chapter 8|19 pages

Practices and the promise of salvation

On Martin Riesebrodt, The Promise of Salvation (2007/2010)

chapter 9|14 pages

Religion as anthropotechnics

On Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life (2009)

chapter 10|15 pages

Religion as world maker

On Robert Bellah, Religion in Human Evolution (2011)

chapter 11|15 pages

Social practice as a holistic frame

On Stephen S. Bush, Visions of Religion (2014)

chapter 12|21 pages

Real religion from the person up

On Christian Smith, Religion (2017)

chapter 13|15 pages

Life in a strange world

On Gavin Flood, Religion and the Philosophy of Life (2019)

chapter 14|20 pages

Orchids and ghosts, concrete and coal

On Paul-François Tremlett, Towards a New Theory of Religion and Social Change (2020)

chapter 15|19 pages

The evolution of semiotic systems

On Volkhard Krech, Evolution der Religion (2021)

chapter 16|15 pages

Davidsonian semantic holism as meta-theoretical framework

On Gabriel Levy, Beyond Heaven and Earth (2022)

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