Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of
Religion

B 2015

Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion

KUNDT, Radek

Základní údaje

Originální název

Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion

Autoři

KUNDT, Radek (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

1st. London, 192 s. Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation, 2015

Nakladatel

Bloomsbury Academic

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Odborná kniha

Obor

60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/15:00084536

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

ISBN

978-1-4742-3224-1

Klíčová slova anglicky

religion; cultural evolution; gene-culture coevolution; group selection; Dual Inheritance Theory; memetics; neo-Darwinism; Universal Darwinism; Cognitive Science of Religion; natural selection; adaptation; by-product

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 3. 3. 2016 13:33, Mgr. Vendula Hromádková

Anotace

V originále

Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion surveys the historical background of cultural evolution as used in the study of religion, pinpointing major objections to classical nineteenth-century theories. Radek Kundt argues that contemporary theories of cultural evolution do not repeat the same mistakes but that when they are evaluated in terms of fitting the core requirements of neo-Darwinian natural selection, it is clear that they are not legitimate extensions of neo-Darwinian theory. Rather, they are poor metaphors and misleading analogies which add little to conventional cause-and-effect historiographical work. This book also introduces an alternative evolutionary approach to the study of culture which does not claim that the principles of neo-Darwinian evolution should be applicable outside the biological domain. Radek Kundt shows that this alternative evolutionary approach nevertheless provides a deeply enriching line of enquiry that incorporates both biological evolutionary history as shaping cultural change and culture as a force acting on the gene.

Návaznosti

EE2.3.20.0048, projekt VaV

Název: Laboratoř pro experimentální výzkum náboženství

Citovat

KUNDT, Radek. Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion. 1st. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, 192 s. Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation. ISBN 978-1-4742-3224-1.

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KUNDT, Radek. \textit{Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion}. 1st. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, 192 s. Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation. ISBN~978-1-4742-3224-1.

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