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  • Ritual Animal
    Harvey Whitehouse
    A radical exploration of how rituals have influenced history over thousands of years. From infancy, we copy those around us in order to be like others, to be one with the tribe. Other primates will copy behaviour that leads to transparent benefits, such as access to food, but only humans promiscuously copy actions that have no obvious instrumental purpose. The copying of causal...
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    51,05 €

  • Mind and Religion
    Harvey Whitehouse
    This collection examines new psychological evidence for the modal theory and attempts to synthesize this theory with other theories of cognition and religion. ...
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    70,66 €

  • Theorizing Religions Past
    Harvey Whitehouse / Luther HMartin
    Historians bound by their singular stories and archaeologists bound by their material evidence don’t typically seek out broad comparative theories of religion. But recently Harvey Whitehouse’s 'modes of religiosity' theory has been attracting many scholars of past religions. Based upon universal features of human cognition, Whitehouse’s theory can provide useful comparisons acr...
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    69,36 €

  • Ritual and Memory
    James Laidlaw / Whitehouse Harvey
    Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers a skeptical pause. In Ritual and Memory, however, a wide range of ethnographers gr...
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    176,06 €

  • Ritual and Memory
    Harvey Whitehouse / James Laidlaw
    Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers a skeptical pause. In Ritual and Memory, however, a wide range of ethnographers gr...
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    69,51 €

  • Modes of Religiosity
    Harvey Whitehouse
    Religions_whatever else they may be_are configurations of cultural information reproduced across space and time. Beginning with this seemingly obvious fact of religious transmission, Harvey Whitehouse goes on to construct a testable theory of how religions are created, passed on, and changed. At the center of his theory are two divergent ’modes of religiosity:’ the imagistic an...
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    148,50 €

  • Modes of Religiosity
    Harvey Whitehouse
    Religions_whatever else they may be_are configurations of cultural information reproduced across space and time. Beginning with this seemingly obvious fact of religious transmission, Harvey Whitehouse goes on to construct a testable theory of how religions are created, passed on, and changed. At the center of his theory are two divergent ’modes of religiosity:’ the imagistic an...
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    57,17 €

  • The Debated Mind
    Harvey Whitehouse
    In a further development of the nature-nurture debate, this collection of articles questions how the human mind influences the content and organization of culture. ...
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    73,29 €

  • The Debated Mind
    Harvey Whitehouse
    In a further development of the nature-nurture debate, this collection of articles questions how the human mind influences the content and organization of culture. In the study of mental activity, can the effects of evolution and history be teased apart? Evolutionary psychologists argue that cultural transmission is constrained by our genetic inheritance. Few social and cultura...
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    268,09 €

  • Arguments and Icons
    Harvey Whitehouse
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    344,01 €