On my desk in front of me lies Radek Kundt's wonderful and badly needed book on Contemporary Evol... more On my desk in front of me lies Radek Kundt's wonderful and badly needed book on Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion, 1 dealing with one of the most popular approaches in our discipline: evolutionary accounts.
Ethology of Religion, which goes back to Charles Darwin himself who revealed in his book The expr... more Ethology of Religion, which goes back to Charles Darwin himself who revealed in his book The expression of the emotions in man and animals (1872) that any form of behavior is just as important for the survival of the species as the adaptation of morphological structures in the course of their phylogenetic histories. In the humanities this approach was adapted by skilled scholars such as Karl Meuli (1891–1968), Aby Warburg (1866–1929), and currently by Roy Rappaport (1926–1997), Marvin Harris (1927–2001) and others. They were able to outline both human universals and the historical development (evolution) of religious behavior. According to the protagonists of this ethological approach and according to recent biology religion is deeply rooted in the biological human heritage. Inherited behavioral patterns did not only form the main patterns of ritual and iconography, but are most probably at least partly responsible for the origin of religion itself.
Ethology of Religion, which goes back to Charles Darwin himself who revealed in his book The expr... more Ethology of Religion, which goes back to Charles Darwin himself who revealed in his book The expression of the emotions in man and animals (1872) that any form of behavior is just as important for the survival of the species as the adaptation of morphological structures in the course of their phylogenetic histories. In the humanities this approach was adapted by skilled scholars such as Karl Meuli (1891–1968), Aby Warburg (1866–1929), and currently by Roy Rappaport (1926–1997), Marvin Harris (1927–2001) and others. They were able to outline both human universals and the historical development (evolution) of religious behavior. According to the protagonists of this ethological approach and according to recent biology religion is deeply rooted in the biological human heritage. Inherited behavioral patterns did not only form the main patterns of ritual and iconography, but are most probably at least partly responsible for the origin of religion itself.
Musliminnen in Deutschland melden sich zunehmend selbstbewusster zu Wort und fordern gesellschaft... more Musliminnen in Deutschland melden sich zunehmend selbstbewusster zu Wort und fordern gesellschaftliche wie politische Teilhabe; auch und vor allem in Sachen Religion. Ihre Ansprüche vertreten sie in den letzten Jahren nicht nur offensiv gegenüber einer christlich-säkular geprägten deutschen Politik, z.B. durch die Forderung nach islamischem Religionsunterricht, sondern auch gegenüber dem männlichen muslimischen Establishment: so macht sich inzwischen eine junge Generation wissenschaftlich ausgebildeter muslimischer Frauen daran, den Koran neu auszulegen – zwar mit Hilfe der traditionellen und allgemein akzeptierten wissenschaftlichen Methodik (Hermeneutik), aber mit völlig neuen Ergebnissen. Damit wird das in vielen muslimischen Ländern übliche Verhältnis der Geschlechter als unislamisch gebrandmarkt, und der Islam zeigt sich als eine Religion nie gekannter Möglichkeiten – gerade für Frauen. Was sind das für Musliminnen, die in der westlichen Welt und gerade auch in Deutschland ihre Religion leben und bekennen? Woher stammen sie oder ihre Eltern, wie leben sie, was glauben sie und wie praktizieren sie ihre Religion?
Muslimische Frauen in Europa sehen sich heute vielfachen Herausforderungen und Diskriminierungen ... more Muslimische Frauen in Europa sehen sich heute vielfachen Herausforderungen und Diskriminierungen ausgesetzt: als Frau, als Migrantin und als Muslimin. Zwischen Anpassung und Selbstbehauptung suchen sie ihren Platz in der europäischen Gesellschaft.
On my desk in front of me lies Radek Kundt's wonderful and badly needed book on Contemporary Evol... more On my desk in front of me lies Radek Kundt's wonderful and badly needed book on Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion, 1 dealing with one of the most popular approaches in our discipline: evolutionary accounts.
Ethology of Religion, which goes back to Charles Darwin himself who revealed in his book The expr... more Ethology of Religion, which goes back to Charles Darwin himself who revealed in his book The expression of the emotions in man and animals (1872) that any form of behavior is just as important for the survival of the species as the adaptation of morphological structures in the course of their phylogenetic histories. In the humanities this approach was adapted by skilled scholars such as Karl Meuli (1891–1968), Aby Warburg (1866–1929), and currently by Roy Rappaport (1926–1997), Marvin Harris (1927–2001) and others. They were able to outline both human universals and the historical development (evolution) of religious behavior. According to the protagonists of this ethological approach and according to recent biology religion is deeply rooted in the biological human heritage. Inherited behavioral patterns did not only form the main patterns of ritual and iconography, but are most probably at least partly responsible for the origin of religion itself.
Ethology of Religion, which goes back to Charles Darwin himself who revealed in his book The expr... more Ethology of Religion, which goes back to Charles Darwin himself who revealed in his book The expression of the emotions in man and animals (1872) that any form of behavior is just as important for the survival of the species as the adaptation of morphological structures in the course of their phylogenetic histories. In the humanities this approach was adapted by skilled scholars such as Karl Meuli (1891–1968), Aby Warburg (1866–1929), and currently by Roy Rappaport (1926–1997), Marvin Harris (1927–2001) and others. They were able to outline both human universals and the historical development (evolution) of religious behavior. According to the protagonists of this ethological approach and according to recent biology religion is deeply rooted in the biological human heritage. Inherited behavioral patterns did not only form the main patterns of ritual and iconography, but are most probably at least partly responsible for the origin of religion itself.
Musliminnen in Deutschland melden sich zunehmend selbstbewusster zu Wort und fordern gesellschaft... more Musliminnen in Deutschland melden sich zunehmend selbstbewusster zu Wort und fordern gesellschaftliche wie politische Teilhabe; auch und vor allem in Sachen Religion. Ihre Ansprüche vertreten sie in den letzten Jahren nicht nur offensiv gegenüber einer christlich-säkular geprägten deutschen Politik, z.B. durch die Forderung nach islamischem Religionsunterricht, sondern auch gegenüber dem männlichen muslimischen Establishment: so macht sich inzwischen eine junge Generation wissenschaftlich ausgebildeter muslimischer Frauen daran, den Koran neu auszulegen – zwar mit Hilfe der traditionellen und allgemein akzeptierten wissenschaftlichen Methodik (Hermeneutik), aber mit völlig neuen Ergebnissen. Damit wird das in vielen muslimischen Ländern übliche Verhältnis der Geschlechter als unislamisch gebrandmarkt, und der Islam zeigt sich als eine Religion nie gekannter Möglichkeiten – gerade für Frauen. Was sind das für Musliminnen, die in der westlichen Welt und gerade auch in Deutschland ihre Religion leben und bekennen? Woher stammen sie oder ihre Eltern, wie leben sie, was glauben sie und wie praktizieren sie ihre Religion?
Muslimische Frauen in Europa sehen sich heute vielfachen Herausforderungen und Diskriminierungen ... more Muslimische Frauen in Europa sehen sich heute vielfachen Herausforderungen und Diskriminierungen ausgesetzt: als Frau, als Migrantin und als Muslimin. Zwischen Anpassung und Selbstbehauptung suchen sie ihren Platz in der europäischen Gesellschaft.
This books sets out to explain how and why religion came into being. Today this question is as fa... more This books sets out to explain how and why religion came into being. Today this question is as fascinating as ever, especially since religion has moved to the centre of socio-political relationships. In contrast to the current, but incomplete approaches from disciplines such as cognitive science and psychology, the present authors adopt a new approach, equally manifest and constructive, that explains the origins of religion based strictly on behavioural biology. They employ accepted research results that remove all need for speculation. Decisive factors for the earliest demonstrations of religion are thus territorial behaviour and ranking, coping with existential fears, and conflict solution with the help of rituals. These in turn, in a process of cultural evolution, are shown to be the roots of the historical and contemporary religions.
This books sets out to explain how and why religion came into being. Today this question is as fa... more This books sets out to explain how and why religion came into being. Today this question is as fascinating as ever, especially since religion has moved to the centre of socio-political relationships. In contrast to the current, but incomplete approaches from disciplines such as cognitive science and psychology, the present authors adopt a new approach, equally manifest and constructive, that explains the origins of religion based strictly on behavioural biology. They employ accepted research results that remove all need for speculation. Decisive factors for the earliest demonstrations of religion are thus territorial behaviour and ranking, coping with existential fears, and conflict solution with the help of rituals. These in turn, in a process of cultural evolution, are shown to be the roots of the historical and contemporary religions.
More than forty years ago the famous archaeologist and specialist for palaeolithic cave art, Andr... more More than forty years ago the famous archaeologist and specialist for palaeolithic cave art, André Leroi-Gourhan wrote in his article Iconographie et Interpretation: „This paper raises a number of questions about the use… of present-day ethnological data as one of the bases for the formation of hypothesis”. The following forty years of research, however, did not achieve a breakthrough as far as the decipherment of the motives in cave art is concerned. Up to now, an ethnological comparison with recent foraging peoples must suffice in order to reconstruct the world view of Paleolithic man – an ideology which depending on the viewer oscillates between a period of Australian dreams and South African bushman shamanism! A successful interpretation of Paleolithic cave art, however, is possible, if a correct scientific background on the one hand and the methods of art history on the other hand are taken under consideration....
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Was sind das für Musliminnen, die in der westlichen Welt und gerade auch in Deutschland ihre Religion leben und bekennen? Woher stammen sie oder ihre Eltern, wie leben sie, was glauben sie und wie praktizieren sie ihre Religion?
Was sind das für Musliminnen, die in der westlichen Welt und gerade auch in Deutschland ihre Religion leben und bekennen? Woher stammen sie oder ihre Eltern, wie leben sie, was glauben sie und wie praktizieren sie ihre Religion?
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A successful interpretation of Paleolithic cave art, however, is possible, if a correct scientific background on the one hand and the methods of art history on the other hand are taken under consideration....