Evolutionary, Cognitive, and Contextual Approaches to the Study
of Religious Systems : A Proposition of Synthesis

J 2020

Evolutionary, Cognitive, and Contextual Approaches to the Study of Religious Systems : A Proposition of Synthesis

LANG, Martin a Radek KUNDT

Základní údaje

Originální název

Evolutionary, Cognitive, and Contextual Approaches to the Study of Religious Systems : A Proposition of Synthesis

Autoři

LANG, Martin (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí) a Radek KUNDT (203 Česká republika, domácí)

Vydání

Method and Theory in the Study of Religion. Journal of the North American Association for the Study of Religion, Leiden-Boston-Koeln, Brill, 2020, 0943-3058

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60304 Religious studies

Stát vydavatele

Nizozemské království

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/20:00113989

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341466

UT WoS

000528214900001

Klíčová slova anglicky

cognition; complex adaptive systems; evolution; mechanism; the humanities and the sciences; religion; ritual

Štítky

rivok, topvydavatel

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 20. 2. 2022 19:45, Mgr. Ivona Vrzalová

Anotace

V originále

The explanatory gap between the life sciences and the humanities that is present in the study of human phenomena impedes productive interdisciplinary examination that such a complex subject requires. Manifested as epistemological tensions over reductionism vs. holism, nature vs. nurture, and the study of micro vs. macro context, the divergent research approaches in the humanities and the sciences produce separate bodies of knowledge that are difficult to reconcile. To remedy this incommensurability, the article proposes to employ the complex adaptive systems approach, which allows to study specific cultural systems in their ecologies and to account for the myriads of factors that constitute such systems, including nonlinear interactions between these factors and their evolution. On a specific example of religious systems, we show that by studying cultural systems in their contextual variability, mechanistic composition, and evolutionary history, the humanities and the sciences should be able to fruitfully collaborate while avoiding previous pitfalls of excessive reductionism, genetic determinism, and sweeping overgeneralizations, on the one hand, and pitfalls of excessive holism, cultural determinism, and aversion to any generalizations, on the other hand.

Návaznosti

GA18-18316S, projekt VaV

Název: Evoluce rituálního chování jako komunikační technologie

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Evoluce rituálního chování jako komunikační technologie

Citovat

LANG, Martin a Radek KUNDT. Evolutionary, Cognitive, and Contextual Approaches to the Study of Religious Systems : A Proposition of Synthesis. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion. Journal of the North American Association for the Study of Religion. Leiden-Boston-Koeln: Brill, 2020, roč. 32, č. 1, s. 1-46. ISSN 0943-3058. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341466.

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LANG, Martin a Radek KUNDT. Evolutionary, Cognitive, and Contextual Approaches to the Study of Religious Systems : A Proposition of Synthesis. \textit{Method and Theory in the Study of Religion. Journal of the North American Association for the Study of Religion}. Leiden-Boston-Koeln: Brill, 2020, roč.~32, č.~1, s.~1-46. ISSN~0943-3058. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341466.

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