An unnatural history of religions: academia, post-truth and the quest for scientific knowledge
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London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney
Bloomsbury Academic
2019
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| Schriftenreihe: | Scientific studies of religion: Inquiry and explanation
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| Umfang: | xxii, 253 Seiten Illustrationen |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Figures and Tables x
Preface: Ghosts, Post-truth Despair, and Rrandolinis Law xi
Acknowledgements xix
Note on Text xxi
1 An Incoherent Contradiction 1
A geological divide 1
Mapping the problématique 2
Maps, compasses and bricks 5
Sui generis crisis 8
The arms race of natural theology 9
2 The Deep History of Comparison 13
A rusty toolbox 13
Birth certificate(s): Ultimate origins 17
A preliminary note on imperialism, postmodernism and science 21
Rationality as cumulative by-product of comparison: From Jean Bodin
to Edward Burnett Tylor 23
Enter comparative mythology: Friedrich Max Müller 26
Triumph and dissolution of comparison: James George Frazer 28
Whodunnit? 31
Shape of things to come 33
3 The Darwinian Road Not Taken 37
‘The greatest historian of all time’ 37
The threat of a scientific and comparative study of religion 39
What makes us human 41
The Origin of Species, 1859: Breaking the chain of being 42
The Descent of Man, 1871: Degrees, not kinds 44
The Rubicon: Max Müller versus Darwin 46
Ladders, progress and pithecophobia 48
Original sin 51
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Contents
Goodbye Science
The theory of everything
A scientific theology? William Robertson Smiths ‘dual life
Smith s heretical accommodationism, 1880s
The end of the Victorian science of religion
Birth certificate(s): HoRs proximate origins
Netherlands, 1860s: Tiele’s (tentative) science of religion
Netherlands, 1870s: Chantepies theological reaction
Netherlands, 1930s: van der Leeuws re-confessionalization
Germany, 1890s: ‘Cultural circles’, geography and reactionary politics
Austria and Switzerland, 1900s-1950s: Schmidts apologetic history
of religion
Schmidt’s legacy: The strategic rescue of Andrew Lang’s High Gods
as an early home run for post-truth
Italy, 1910s-1950s: Pettazzonis revolutionary rebuttal
Italy, 1920s-1930s: Pettazzoni’s two-fold gamble
1950: Tile foundation of the IAHR and the defeat of science
Eliadology
Neither with you nor without you: Mircea Eliade
Eliade, 1920s-1980s: From Romanian post-truth to American New Age
The sacred from the Stone Age to the present and back again
Schmidt s stupendous learning and industry’
An epistemic twilight: Pseudoscience and esotericism
Shamanism, 1200s~ 1800s: Heretics, noble savages, (super)heroes
Shamanism, 1937-1946: Eliadean superpowers
Shamanism, 1951-1970s: The Eliadean synthesis
Resolving ‘The problem of shamanism’: An unwarranted answer to a
non-existent question
The Demolition of the Status Quo
Point of (k)no(w) return: The politics of the Eliadean HoR
Sexist biases and gender issues: Eliade s tunnel vision
Dismantling homo religiosus: Rita M. Gross
Dismantling the Eliadean research programme: Henry Pernet
Dismantling the primacy of shamanism: Mac Linscott Ricketts
Dismantling phenomenological morphology: loan P. Culianu
Dismantling classification: lonathan Z. Smith
Dismantling right-wing ideology: Bruce Lincoln
New generations, poststructuralism and Religious Studies
Be careful what you wish for: Postmodernism
From Deconstruction to New Realism
Contents ix
7 The Cognitive (Revolution: The End? 145
Post-truth rules 145
What is science, anyway? 148
Forgotten forerunners: Baldwins evolutionary epistemology 151
Forgotten forerunners: Harrisons evolutionary psychology 153
Forgotten forerunners: Macalister s invention of tradition 154
Disappearing without a trace 155
The Dark Ages: Psychoanalysis, behaviourism and cultural anthropology 156
Modern trail-blazers, 1950s-1990s: The slow Renaissance of science 160
Cognition, 2000s: Back to a natural history of religion 163
Cognition, 2010s: More than meets the eye 166
Learning from your mistakes: The usefulness of scientific false views* 168
A short-lived success? The inevitable rise of false facts* 170
Epilogue: The Night of Pseudoscience 175
Notes 179
Bibliography 191
Index 233
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