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Chasing Down Religion
Panayotis Pachis, Donald Wiebe
Whether as a historian finding solutions to unresolved problems or as a scientist finding the causes for events and actions, Luther Martin's primary focus has been to get to the roots of the religious impulse in human existence. This collection of essays from scholars of his own generation and from... Read more
Published: 2014
Pages: 622
eBook: 9781781792070
Whether as a historian finding solutions to unresolved problems or as a scientist finding the causes for events and actions, Luther Martin's primary focus has been to get to the roots of the religious impulse in human existence. This collection of essays from scholars of his own generation and from his best students cover the three major strands of his work: the Greco-Roman world, cognitive science approaches to explaining religious phenomena, and methodological issues in the academic study of religions. The contributions build on the work of Luther Martin and further the ongoing discussion and debate within these areas of religious studies.
Panayotis Pachis is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Donald Wiebe is a Professor in the Faculty of Divinity, Trinity College, University of Toronto.
Panayotis Pachis is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Donald Wiebe is a Professor in the Faculty of Divinity, Trinity College, University of Toronto.
| Cover | Cover | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | vi | ||
| Contributors | x | ||
| Abbreviations | xviii | ||
| Luther H. Martin Publications | xx | ||
| Preface | xxxvi | ||
| Ancient and modern approaches to the representation\rof supernatural beings | 1 | ||
| Gnosis in European religious History | 9 | ||
| The first shall be last | 31 | ||
| Comparative religion scholars in debate | 49 | ||
| Why did Greeks and Romans pray aloud? | 69 | ||
| Reflections on the origins of religious thought and\rbehavior | 81 | ||
| Why is it better to be a plant than an animal? | 99 | ||
| Miracles, Memory and Meaning | 117 | ||
| ‘Whatever story sings, the arena displays for you’ | 133 | ||
| Religion and violence | 151 | ||
| Disciplinary Clans | 175 | ||
| The social capital of religious communities in\rthe age of globalization | 191 | ||
| Towards a cognitive Historiography | 209 | ||
| How science and Religion are more like theology and\rcommonsense explanations than they are like each\rother | 217 | ||
| The Transmission of Historical cognition | 237 | ||
| Religion before ‘Religion’? | 251 | ||
| The discourse of a myth | 269 | ||
| The History of Religions and evolutionary models | 293 | ||
| Religion and Modern culture | 307 | ||
| Do Relics do? | 325 | ||
| Mithras in the magical papyri | 339 | ||
| The use of Egyptian tradition in Alexandria\rof the Hellenistic and Roman periods | 351 | ||
| Buddhist Hymns and Medieval plainsong | 373 | ||
| Citations of Biblical texts in Greek, Jewish and\rChristian inscriptions of late antiquity: | 397 | ||
| Memorable religions: transmission, codification,\rand change in divergent Melanesian contexts | 413 | ||
| Recovering ‘religious experience’ in the\rexplanation of religion | 441 | ||
| Can the study of religion be scientific? | 459 | ||
| General Bibliography | 473 | ||
| Index of Authors | 539 | ||
| Index of Writers | 543 | ||
| General Index | 551 |