Intentional systems theory as a conceptual framework for religious studies: a scientific method for studying beliefs
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Tipo de documento: | Print Libro |
Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Lewiston, N.Y. [u.a.]
Edwin Mellen Press
c2010
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En: | Año: 2010 |
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Ciencias de la religión
/ Teoría de los sistemas
/ Religiosidad
/ Conceptualización
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Otras palabras clave: | B
Religión Methodology
B Intentionality (Philosophy) B System theory |
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Notas: | 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 |
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ISBN: | 0773414126 |