Ancestors, Territoriality, and Gods : A Natural History of Religion.
| 1. Verfasser: |
Wunn, Ina 1954-
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Grojnowski, Davina.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer,
2016.
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| Umfang/Format: |
1 online resource (291 pages). |
| Schriftenreihe: |
The Frontiers Collection
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| Parallelausgabe: |
Ancestors, Territoriality, and Gods : A Natural History of Religion (Print version:) |
| Online Zugang: |
Available online |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- 1 Of Men and Apes
- Gorillas in the Mist
- More About the Mbuti-Pygmies
- What Is Religion?
- Religion and Environment
- Stages of the Development of Religion
- The Driving Force of Development
- Temporary Results and New Questions
- 2 The Crux of a Darwinian Approach to Evolution
- Evolution-What Is It?
- The Origin of Species
- The Concept of Species and Evolution
- Religion and the Naturally Evolving Unit
- Heredity
- The Evolution of Religions
- 3 The Question of When? (Lower Palaeolithic, C. 2.6 mybp-300,000 ybp)
- Preliminary Conclusions and Next Steps
- But First the Question of When!
- Our Bloodthirsty Ancestors
- The Human Tree of Life
- 4 My Cave Is My Castle-Middle Palaeolithic, Territoriality, and Death
- Our Preliminary Results
- The History of Cannibals
- Secondary Interments Amongst the Neanderthals?
- Homo neanderthalensis-An Anthropological Positioning
- Territoriality
- Territoriality Amongst Our Ancestors
- 5 Existential Fears-And an Excursus in Art History
- Previous Results
- The Importance of Fear
- Emotions and Signals
- The Upper Palaeolithic in Europe
- Back to Territoriality: Interments
- 6 A Forest of Symbols-The Art of the European Upper Palaeolithic (40,000-12,000 ybp)
- Preliminary Results
- Cave Art
- The Biological Background-Communication and Ranking
- Threatening and Calming
- Female Figurines
- First Steps Towards Religion
- 7 The Change of Imagery (The Central European Mesolithic, Approx. 9600-5800 ybp)
- How Do Images and Symbols Change?
- The Evolution of Religious Behaviour, Using the Example of Cave Art
- Endangered Worlds: Climate Change and Its Consequences
- Displaying and the Underworld: The Case Study Lepenski Vir (8500-6500 Vbp)
- The Hearth in Folktales and Myths
- Developments.
- 8 Aedificio Ergo Sum (I Build, Thus I Am). Early Settlers in the Fertile Crescent
- Familiar Signals…
- Climate Phases
- Epipalaeolithic Timeline
- And Suddenly a Temple? The Story of Göbekli Tepe…
- Home and Décor
- Çayönü Tepesi-From a Hunter's Camp to Village
- Çayönü and Death
- Settledness and Its Consequences for Ideology
- Simultaneously in the Levant…
- 9 The Village, the Ritual, and Death
- What Is a Ritual?
- Structures of the Ritual
- An Example: The Initiation of Boys Amongst the Makonde
- Ritual and Conflict
- Çatal Höyük
- Secondary Interments
- The Big Transition
- 10 Ex Oriente Lux: Neolithic Ideology Becomes Popular
- The Successful Model "Neolithic" on the Rise
- Urmutter and Death
- Ritual and Myth
- Hacılar
- Ancestral Cult: The Development of House Shrines
- Rock Paintings on the Latmos-An Initiation Ritual
- 11 Heroes, Gods, Sanctuaries-The Male Principle and Collective Cult
- Religion in the Neolithic-A Flashback
- Heroes Wanted
- The Hero in Myths
- How a Myth Develops
- The Cultural Environment-The Neolithic in Central Europe
- Circular Enclosures and Roundels-From a Domestic Cult to a Cultic Complex
- From a Collective Cult to Collective Burials: The Megalith Graves of the Funnel Beaker Culture (6200-4800 ybp)
- Why the Megalithic Burial Sites?
- 12 The Exchange of Gifts and the Underworld: Malta
- The Power of the Underworld
- Malta
- Temple and Death Cult on Malta
- The Exchange of Gifts
- Malta: Religion and the Ecosystem
- 13 The Double Axe and the Bull-A Pantheon Develops
- The Weather God Enters the Stage
- Gods and the Cognitive Science of Religion
- Social Change
- Crete During the Bronze Ages
- The Ideology of a Differentiating Society: Crete
- Mycenean Culture and Religion
- The Homeric Era
- Philosophy
- Bibliography
- Bibliography
- Titles in this Series
- Index.
