出版社: Belknap Press
副标题: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
出版年: 2011-9
页数: 784
定价: USD 39.95
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780674061439
内容简介 · · · · · ·
Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition—a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were worth living. It offers what is frequently seen as a forbidden theory of the origin of religion that goes deep into evolution, especially but not exclusively cultural evolution.
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Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition—a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were worth living. It offers what is frequently seen as a forbidden theory of the origin of religion that goes deep into evolution, especially but not exclusively cultural evolution.
How did our early ancestors transcend the quotidian demands of everyday existence to embrace an alternative reality that called into question the very meaning of their daily struggle? Robert Bellah, one of the leading sociologists of our time, identifies a range of cultural capacities, such as communal dancing, storytelling, and theorizing, whose emergence made this religious development possible. Deploying the latest findings in biology, cognitive science, and evolutionary psychology, he traces the expansion of these cultural capacities from the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (roughly, the first millennium BCE), when individuals and groups in the Old World challenged the norms and beliefs of class societies ruled by kings and aristocracies. These religious prophets and renouncers never succeeded in founding their alternative utopias, but they left a heritage of criticism that would not be quenched.
Bellah’s treatment of the four great civilizations of the Axial Age—in ancient Israel, Greece, China, and India—shows all existing religions, both prophetic and mystic, to be rooted in the evolutionary story he tells. Religion in Human Evolution answers the call for a critical history of religion grounded in the full range of human constraints and possibilities.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Robert N. Bellah is Elliott Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
目录 · · · · · ·
Ac know ledg ments xxv
1. Religion and Reality 1
2. Religion and Evolution 44
3. Tribal Religion: The Production of Meaning 117
4. From Tribal to Archaic Religion: Meaning and Power 175
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Ac know ledg ments xxv
1. Religion and Reality 1
2. Religion and Evolution 44
3. Tribal Religion: The Production of Meaning 117
4. From Tribal to Archaic Religion: Meaning and Power 175
5. Archaic Religion: God and King 210
6. Th e Axial Age I: Introduction and Ancient Israel 265
7. Th e Axial Age II: Ancient Greece 324
8. Th e Axial Age III: China in the Late First Millennium BCE 399
9. Th e Axial Age IV: Ancient India 481
10. Conclusion 567
Notes 609
Index 715
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【转】张志锋丨罗伯特•贝拉的宗教进化思想研究
比纪录片还精彩的历史书❗️巨巨巨涨知识❗️
78万字的社科巨作!已读哭~
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宗教起源于人类的“离线”状态!!!
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喜欢看欧洲中世纪电影,对宗教的神秘和庄严总是充满好奇。 在我的认知里,宗教起源于万物有灵论、自然崇拜、梦幻、异己的自然力量与社会力量的压 迫等各种理论。 读了罗伯特·贝拉教 授的《人类进化中的宗教》一书,才知道宗教的起源其实比我们想象的要复杂、要有趣得多! 罗伯... (展开)哲学社科党狂喜大作,一本顶十本的经典好书
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4 有用 南池子 2016-02-20 11:16:39
进化既是生物的,也是伦理的;既是事实,也是一种信念【这本书厚的啊!读了第一章(宗教表征的四种:统合的/unitive、能动的/enactive、象征的/symbolic、概念的/conceptual)和第八章,作者所有的样本选择都回到了古典轴心时期,可以窥见他对现代的无限悲观以及对过去的极度沉湎、呼唤道德成为社会公共宗教的保守旨趣】
2 有用 免成 2022-11-18 22:02:18 江西
说实话,这书是真的只有苦劳,完全不像是一本写了半辈子的书 以作者的地位写这样篇幅的一本书,我们至少会期待一本深度和广度能够和泰勒的《世俗时代》相比的著作,结果最后水平和福山的《政治秩序的起源》差不多 除了开头的综述以外,后面就几乎除了框架还是框架,作者所有的功夫可以说都花在如何把各种材料材料更匀称的填充到他的叙事里去,而对于自己的方法论与处理异质性的材料的方式却缺乏根本上的反思 读这样一本书唯一特... 说实话,这书是真的只有苦劳,完全不像是一本写了半辈子的书 以作者的地位写这样篇幅的一本书,我们至少会期待一本深度和广度能够和泰勒的《世俗时代》相比的著作,结果最后水平和福山的《政治秩序的起源》差不多 除了开头的综述以外,后面就几乎除了框架还是框架,作者所有的功夫可以说都花在如何把各种材料材料更匀称的填充到他的叙事里去,而对于自己的方法论与处理异质性的材料的方式却缺乏根本上的反思 读这样一本书唯一特别一点的感想大概就是让我看到了20世纪下半叶西方汉学界的进步与成果,也许确实让西方的一般读者对于古代中国有了更好的了解 (展开)
2 有用 JuJu 2015-01-06 01:37:35
I am so happy that I take this book on the road, where time and place lose their relativity and the feeling of drifting in and alongside the crowds grow crisply transparent. I am immensely captivated.
1 有用 后 2016-07-13 09:39:47
晚期贝拉,想不到也和terry deacon一路
0 有用 zyzyzzZ 2016-07-13 09:13:59
课上读了点节选,太喜欢了,保完研必须读。