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Changing religious worlds : the meaning and end of Mircea Eliade.
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ISBN: 0791447294 0791447308 Year: 2000 Publisher: Albany SUNY Press

Reconstructing Eliade : making sense of religion
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ISBN: 0585043280 9780585043289 0791427633 0791427641 143841708X Year: 1996 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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An ethology of religion and art : belief as behavior
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ISBN: 9780367354671 0367354675 Year: 2020 Publisher: Abingdon : Routledge,

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"Drawing from 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, 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 Ann Taves, among others, 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"--


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Suny series, issues in the study of religion
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Year: 1999 Publisher: Albany (N.Y.) State University of New York press

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Religion, terror and violence : religious studies perspectives
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ISBN: 9780415442312 Year: 2008 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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