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@book{1316053,
author = {Kundt, Radek},
address = {London},
edition = {1st},
keywords = {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},
howpublished = {tištěná verze "print"},
language = {eng},
location = {London},
isbn = {978-1-4742-3224-1},
publisher = {Bloomsbury Academic},
title = {Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion},
year = {2015}
}
TY - BOOK
ID - 1316053
AU - Kundt, Radek
PY - 2015
TI - Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion
VL - Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
PB - Bloomsbury Academic
CY - London
SN - 9781474232241
KW - religion
KW - cultural evolution
KW - gene-culture coevolution
KW - group selection
KW - Dual Inheritance Theory
KW - memetics
KW - neo-Darwinism
KW - Universal Darwinism
KW - Cognitive Science of Religion
KW - natural selection
KW - adaptation
KW - by-product
N2 - 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.
ER -
KUNDT, Radek. \textit{Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion}. 1st. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, 192 pp. Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation. ISBN~978-1-4742-3224-1.
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