商品簡介
In earlier works on patterns of religious dissemination and political association, Whitehouse (anthropology, Queen's U., Belfast) concentrated on the consequences of particular psychological processes. Here he concentrates more heavily on the underlying psychological processes themselves, substantially extends his theory's cognitive foundations, and distinguishes what is known about religious transmission from what is still to be learned. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Harvey Whitehouse is professor of anthropology and director of postgraduate studies in the Faculty of Humanities at Queen's University Belfast. He is co-editor, with Luther H. Martin, of the AltaMira 'Cognitive Science of Religion Series'. His previous books include Inside the Cult: Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea (1995, OUP), Arguments and Icons: Divergent Modes of Religiosity, (2000, OUP), and The Debated Mind: Evolutionary Psychology versus Ethnography (2001 Berg).
