Buch, Englisch, Band Band 020, 112 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 204 g
Reihe: Religion, Theologie und Naturwissenschaft /Religion, Theology, and Natural Science
Science And The Dissolution Of Religion
Buch, Englisch, Band Band 020, 112 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 204 g
Reihe: Religion, Theologie und Naturwissenschaft /Religion, Theology, and Natural Science
ISBN: 978-3-525-56940-5
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Zielgruppe
Studierende und Lehrende der Philosophie, der Anthropologie, der Psychologie und der Theologie, speziell der Systematischen Theologie und des Bereichs Naturwissenschaft und Religion.
Fachgebiete
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Religion & Wissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Theologie und die Wissenschaften
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Naturphilosophie, Philosophie und Evolution
Weitere Infos & Material
1. Is there such a thing as religion?
2. What is natural in religions?
3. Do religions make people better?
4. Is there a religious experience?
5. Are religions against reason and freedom?
Bibliography
Notes
Pascal Boyer argues that religion is largely an illusion. The anthropologist traces religion’s cognitive and evolutionary aspects. By 'religion' he means a kind of existential and cognitive 'package' that includes views about supernatural agency (gods), notions of morality, particular rituals and sometimes particular experiences, as well as membership in a particular community of believers. The package, however, does not really exist as such. Notions of supernatural agents, of morality, of ethnic identity, or ritual requirements and other experience, all appear in human minds independently. This implies that there is no such thing as a conflict between science and religion. Boyer takes the reader onto a journey through science and the dissolution of religion.>
Mit einem Nachwort von Wolfgang Achtner und Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidt