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1st Edition

An Ethology of Religion and Art Belief as Behavior

By Bryan Rennie Copyright 2020

304 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

302 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

302 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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Description

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... Read more

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

1 Introduction.

Part One: Theorizing Religion and Art.

2 The Ethology of Art (and Religion).

3 The Cognitive Science of Religion: An Artless Art.

4 Skill and the Sacred: Redefining Art, Redefining Religion.

5 Beauty and Religion.

6 Art and the Sacred.

7 Wisdom as Skilled Insight into the Character of Reality.

8 What is Art (and Religion) for? What do they do?

Part Two: Applying the Theory.

9 Divination: The Vanishing Point of Religion.

10 From Caves to Cities—Religion and the Earliest Art.

11 The Art of Biblical Prophecy: The Technocracy of the Text.

12 Where is the Art we have Lost in Religion?

13 Where is the Religion we have Lost in Art?

14 Conclusion—Representation as Response to the Really Real.

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Biography

Bryan Rennie is a Professor of Religion and Philosophy in the Religion Faculty at Westminster College, USA.

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