1st Edition

Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture Image and Word in the Mind of Narrative

    348 Pages
    by Routledge

    352 Pages
    by Routledge

    'Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture' brings together some of the world's leading scholars in the fields of cognitive science and comparative religion. The essays range across diverse fields: the neurological processes and possible genetic foundations of how language emerged; the possible phylogenetic routes in the development of language and culture; the complex interrelations between the ontogenesis and the sociogenesis of cognitive processes; the value of a combination of neurology, narratology and a reworked speech-act approach that focuses on narrative; how the psychology of ritual helps make narrative beliefs possible; religious narratives; emotional communication; the role of gossip as religious narrative; area studies of religious narrative and cognition in the Bible; Indian Epic literature; Australian Aboriginal mythology and ritual; modern religious forms such as New Age, Asatro, astrological narrative and virtual rituals in cyberspace.

    Armin W. Geertz & Jeppe Sinding Jensen: Introduction Theoretical Perspectives Chapter 1. Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture: Approaches and Definitions

    Biography

    Armin W. Geertz, Jeppe Sinding Jensen