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Author : Joseph Carroll
Release : 2022-10-11
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Imaginative Culture and Human Nature: Evolutionary Perspectives on the Arts, Religion, and Ideology by : Joseph Carroll
Download or read book Imaginative Culture and Human Nature: Evolutionary Perspectives on the Arts, Religion, and Ideology written by Joseph Carroll. This book was released on 2022-10-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Carroll
Release : 2020-08-28
Genre : Psychology
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Book Rating : 904/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture by : Joseph Carroll
Download or read book Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture written by Joseph Carroll. This book was released on 2020-08-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering volume offers an expansive introduction to the relatively new field of evolutionary studies in imaginative culture. Contributors from psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, and the humanities probe the evolved human imagination and its artefacts. The book forcefully demonstrates that imagination is part of human nature. Contributors explore imaginative culture in seven main areas: Imagination: Evolution, Mechanisms and Functions Myth and Religion Aesthetic Theory Music Visual and Plastic Arts Video Games and Films Oral Narratives and Literature Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture widens the scope of evolutionary cultural theory to include much of what “culture” means in common usage. The contributors aim to convince scholars in both the humanities and the evolutionary human sciences that biology and imaginative culture are intimately intertwined. The contributors illuminate this broad theoretical argument with comprehensive insights into religion, ideology, personal identity, and many particular works of art, music, literature, film, and digital media. The chapters “Imagination, the Brain’s Default Mode Network, and Imaginative Verbal Artifacts” and “The Role of Aesthetic Style in Alleviating Anxiety About the Future” are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Author : Todd K. Shackelford
Release : 2019-10-21
Genre : Psychology
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Book Rating : 666/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Evolutionary Perspectives on Death by : Todd K. Shackelford
Download or read book Evolutionary Perspectives on Death written by Todd K. Shackelford. This book was released on 2019-10-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest volume in this multidisciplinary series on key topics in evolutionary studies, Evolutionary Perspectives on Death provides an evolutionary analysis of mortality and the consideration of death. Bringing together noted experts from a variety of fields, the books emanate from conferences held at Oakland University, and are dedicated to providing wide ranging and occasionally provocative views of human evolution. The volume on death covers topics from biology, anthropology, psychology, sociology and philosophy, with contributors addressing how evolution informs the process of comprehending, grieving, depicting, celebrating, and accepting death. Among the topics covered: Evolutionary perspectives on the loss of a twin Nonhuman primate responses to death Death in literature Witnessing and representing the death of pets The role of human decomposition facilities in shaping American perspectives on death This insightful volume showcases groundbreaking empirical and theoretical research addressing death and mortality from an evolutionary perspective, demonstrating the intellectual value of an interdisciplinary approach to understanding psychological processes and behavior. Chapter 6 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
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Release : 2019
Genre : Identity (Philosophical concept)
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Author : Bryan Rennie
Release : 2020-02-13
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis An Ethology of Religion and Art by : Bryan Rennie
Download or read book An Ethology of Religion and Art written by Bryan Rennie. This book was released on 2020-02-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from sources including the ethology of art and the cognitive science of religion this book proposes an improved understanding of both art and religion as behaviors developed in the process of human evolution. Looking at both art and religion as closely related, but not identical, behaviors a more coherent definition of religion can be formed that avoids pitfalls such as the Eurocentric characterization of religion as belief or the dismissal of the category as nothing more than false belief or the product of scholarly invention. The book integrates highly relevant insights from the ethology and anthropology of art, particularly the identification of "the special" by Ellen Dissanayake and art as agency by Alfred Gell, with insights from, among others, Ann Taves, who similarly identified "specialness" as characteristic of religion. It integrates these insights into a useful and accurate understanding and explanation of the relationship of art and religion and of religion as a human behavior. This in turn is used to suggest how art can contribute to the development and maintenance of religions. The innovative combination of art, science, and religion in this book makes it a vital resource for scholars of Religion and the Arts, Aesthetics, Religious Studies, Religion and Science and Religious Anthropology.
