Religious speciation : how religions evolve /: how religions evolve. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ina Wunn, Davina Grojnowski.
• Authors: Wunn, Ina; Grojnowski, Davina
• Contents: Intro; Contents; Chapter 1: Before We Embark on Our Discovery...; 1.1 How It All Began; 1.2 Models of Evolution; 1.3 The Evolution of Religions - A Desideratum; 1.4 Ad Usum Delphini; 1.5 How to Read This Book; References; Chapter 2: Evolution - What Is It?; 2.1 Evolution - The Big Misunderstanding; 2.2 Nature's Order; 2.3 The Historicisation of Nature; 2.4 Fossils and Systematics; 2.5 The Discovery of Evolutionary Mechanisms; 2.6 The Issue of Hereditary Transmission; 2.7 The Evolving Unit; 2.8 What Is Evolution and How Should We Imagine a Model of Religious Evolution? 2.9 Preliminary ConsequencesReferences; Chapter 3: Why a "Darwinian" Approach on Religious Evolution?; 3.1 Evolutionary Approaches on Religion; 3.2 The Success of Cognitive Approaches; 3.3 More than an Excursus: The Driving Forces Behind Hominization; 3.4 The Evolution of Religions - Only of Religions; References; Chapter 4: Absolute Prerequisite: Systematics and the Natural Evolving Unit; 4.1 Religion as a Taxon - On the Trail of Linné; 4.2 The Species - A Brief Review; 4.3 The Evolving Unit; 4.4 An Example from Religious Studies Research: A Genealogical Tree of India's Religions 4.5 An Interim SummaryReferences; Chapter 5: The Taxon Religion; 5.1 What Is Evolution and What Is Not?; 5.2 The Individual Religion as a Taxonomic Unit and Brain-to-Brain Coupling; 5.3 Religion as Taxon - A Different Characterisation; 5.4 The Religious Information Capital of the Individual Religious Communities - Examples; 5.5 The Religious Information Capital of the Individual Communities - Why This Is So Important; 5.6 Heterozygous (Hybrid) Religions; 5.7 Spontaneous Changes (Mutations); References; Chapter 6: Variability; 6.1 An Interim Summary 6.2 Varieties and the Recombination of Information Units: Development of Shia6.3 On Mutations; 6.4 Varieties in Judaism: The Fate of Its Communities; 6.5 The Taxon Christianity and the Development of Varieties; 6.6 When and How Varieties Develop - An Attempted Systematisation; 6.7 Restless Times and the Collapse of Isolation Mechanisms; 6.8 A Brief Summary; References; Chapter 7: Selection; 7.1 What We Already Know...; 7.2 The Selection Term in the Humanities and in Biology; 7.3 For the Sake of Completeness: Concepts of Selection in Recent Anthropological and Religious Studies Research 7.4 The Babylonian Exile and the Competition Between the Merchants of Meaning7.5 The Successor of God's Messenger and Selection; 7.6 Selection and Dogma: Christianity; 7.7 Religious Selection Is Multilevel Selection; References; Chapter 8: Religions and Their Environment; 8.1 Historically; 8.2 Religion, Environment, and the Eco-System; 8.3 Religions, Evolution, and the Role of the Environment; 8.4 Judaism and Its Changing Environments; 8.5 Christianity and Its Changing Environments; 8.6 Islam's Environment; 8.7 Environment and Selection; References Chapter 9: Adaptation, Fitness, and Empty Niches
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 280 pages)
• Subjects: 201.4; Religions -- Classification; Evolution -- Religious aspects; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030044350; 3030044351
• Related ISBNs: 3030044343; 9783030044343
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 14, 2019).
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