Conceiving God: The Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion - Hardcover

Lewis-Williams, David J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 050005164X ISBN 13: 9780500051641

Verlag: Thames & Hudson, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

In this book the noted cognitive archaeologist David Lewis-Williams confronts a question that troubles many people in the world today: Is there a supernatural realm that intervenes in the material world of daily life and leads to the evolution of religions?Professor Lewis-Williams first describes how science developed within the cocoon of religion and then shows how the natural functioning of the human brain creates experiences that can lead to belief in a supernatural realm, beings, and interventions. Once people have these experiences, they formulate beliefs aboutthem, and thus creeds are born.Forty thousand years ago, people were leaving traces in the archaeological record of activities that we can label religious, and Lewis-Williams discusses in detail the evidence preserved in the Volp Caves in France. He also shows that mental imagery produced by the functioning of the human brain can be detected in widely separated religious communities such as Hildegard of Bingen s in medieval Europe or the San hunters of southern Africa.

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David Lewis-Williams is Professor Emeritus and Senior Mentor at the Rock Art Research Institute, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is the author of The Mind in the Cave, Conceiving God, and Deciphering Ancient Minds.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 050005164X
• ISBN 13: 9780500051641
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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