RT Book
T1 Intentional systems theory as a conceptual framework for religious studies: a scientific method for studying beliefs
A1 Kamppinen, Matti 1961-
LA English
PP Lewiston, N.Y. u.a.
PB Edwin Mellen Press
YR 2010
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1611136644
NO Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-126) and index. - Intentional systems theory and the empirical study of religion -- Intentional systems and common sense -- Intentional systems in the works of Durkheim, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard -- Amazonian folk religion -- Theory of intentional systems -- Systems thinking -- Composition of intentional systems -- Structure of intentional systems -- Belief as a theoretical and functional entity -- Religious intentional systems -- Religious contents and their dynamics -- Hallmark of religious contents -- Gods in flabbergast, a constructed religion -- Cultural models as systems of contents -- Dynamics of contents : tradition ecology -- Tradition ecology and illness models -- Rationality as systemic property -- Rationality as a precondition of ethnographic descriptions -- Rationality as an explanatory principle -- Rationality and religious games -- Rationality and critical study of religion -- Navigating in the world of uncertainty -- Possible worlds -- Cultural models of time -- Playing against Yashingo -- Playing against technological risks -- Playing against market forces -- Playing against superior beings in archaic and modern societies -- Imposing the features of religions into other cultural systems -- Concepts of boundary and sacred -- Intentional systems and boundaries -- Foundations and uses of boundaries -- Sacred as a boundary that involves supernatural entities
CN BL41
SN 9780773414129
SN 0773414126
K1 Religion : Methodology
K1 System theory
K1 Intentionality (Philosophy)