Gustavo Benavides
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660726 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gustavo Benavides |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gustavo |
| FAMILY NAME | Benavides |
| SIGNATURE | BENAVIDES G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Villanova University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Plight of Western Religion: The Eclipse of the Other-Worldly. By Paul Gifford
The subtitle of the book describes what “the plight of western religion” is, namely, that across the West the other-worldly no longer plays the role it once did. There was a time, Gifford argues, when a robust religion and life, in general, were pervaded by references to the supernatural; whereas now, with the supernatural eclipsed and its institutions being indistinguishable from NGOs, “Christianity in the West, understood substantively, has bee…
Christianity in Latin America
Portrait: Ann Taves
As the first invitee to this portrait section trained as a scholar of religion and situated in a department of religious studies, I was interested to see how previous scholars trained in anthropology and sociology positioned themselves in relation to ‘religion’ as an object of study. It seems we all do so gingerly. Although my graduate work was in the history of Christianity with a focus on American religious history, since the early 1990s I have…
Response Theory, Quasi-theory and Pseudo-theory in the Study of Religion
This paper offers a series of critical observations on the essays that emerged from the roundtable co-sponsored by the North American Association for the Study of Religion and the Critical Theory and Discourses in Religion Group of the American Academy of Religion. Rather than simply responding to each paper, the essay takes these essays to provide a small but suggestive window into the work of theoretically-minded scholars of religion
On the Production of Religious Configurations
Research on the emergence of the configuration known as “religion” requires tracing the articulation among biological, psychological and social processes. This research must take into account evolutionary approaches; first, in terms of hominid evolution, for it is only by taking into consideration work on symbolization, language development, the capacity to engage in metacognition and cooperation, the tendency to form hierarchies, engage in viole…
Religious Experience Reconsideredas an example of theoretical assertiveness in the study of religion
The publication of Religious Experience Reconsidered is one more indication that the incoherent mixture of coyness and braggadocio that for decades has characterized the study of religion and other disciplines, is finally giving way to honest theoretical assertiveness. Taves' book is a careful treatment of experience deemed religious that manages to do justice to the recurrent features of what people tend to experience in such contexts, while als…
The Queen of the Sciences Speaks, Softly
Irrational Experiences, Heroic Deeds And The Extraction Of Surplus
Through a heroic deed one grabs reality and bends it to one's will, paying no consideration to everyday constraints, to ordinary morality or even to the rules of logic. Ultimately, a heroic deed must appear as gratuitous, as grounded upon itself, as similar in this regard to Schmitt's sovereign decision. Among scholars of religion as much as literary figures, the concern with the heroic act goes hand in hand with the concern with irrational exper…
Western Religion and the Self-Canceling of Modernity
The extreme character of western modernity is the result of the interaction of two contradictory processes. On the one hand, the cultivation of interiority, reflexivity, and thus of subjective freedom, which antedates Christianity, and which is also found in other cultures, but which Christianity intensified by equating religion with 'faith.' On the other, the need to assert one's freedom against the attempts on the part of a church, which, while…
Die kulturellen Werte Europas
Die Macht Der Dinge. Geschichte Und Theorie Sakraler Objekte – Karl‐Heinz Kohl
Che Cos’è La Religione: Temi, Metodi, Problemi – Giovanni Filoramo
There Is Data for Religion
Journal Article There Is Data for Religion Get access Gustavo Benavides Gustavo Benavides Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 71, Issue 4, December 2003, Pages 895–903, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfg105 Published: 01 December 2003
Afterreligion after Religion
Journal Article Afterreligion after Religion Get access Gustavo Benavides Gustavo Benavides Gustavo Benavides is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University, Villanova PA 19085-1699 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 69, Issue 2, June 2001, Pages 449–458, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/69.2.449 Published: 0…
What raw materials are used in the manufacture of religion
Towards a Natural History of Religion
Taking as point of departure Walter Burkert's work, this article seeks to theorise the relationship between needing and getting, choreographed by ritual and mythology, and the formal excess that characterises religious practices. While the formal complexity that characterises ritual activity and doctrinal elaboration reminds us of the parallels between religions and the aesthetic realm, the fact that the satisfaction of the needs of organisms is …
Latin American Catholicism, Comprometido and Compromised
L'auteur traite des tensions qui existent entre l'engagement (compromiso) et le compromis dans l'histoire du catholicisme latino-americain. Lorsque l'on remonte a la conquete espagnole et aux periodes coloniale et republicaine, il est clair que le catholicisme a du jouer des roles contradictoires: legitimer ses relations vis-a-vis du pouvoir en place et en meme temps defendre les droits des opprimes. Les tensions entre sa mission et ses compromis…
Postmodern Disseminations and Cognitive Constraints
Pascal Boyer, Tradition as Truth and Communication: a Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990, x + 140 pp., $49.95 ISBN 0 521 37417 0. PASCAL BOYER, The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: a Cognitive Theory of Religion. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1994, 15 + 324 pp., $35.00 ISBN 0 520 07559 5. Pascal Boyer (ed), Cognitive Aspects of Religious Symbolism. Cambridge, Cambridge University…
Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions
Preface Culture in a Landscape: Situating Religion Beyond Culture Sociobiology? A Common World: Reduction and Validation Escape and Offerings Finger Sacrifice Biology, Fantasy, and Ritual Castration and Circumcision Scapegoats Life for Life The Core of a Tale Caught up in Tales The Propp Sequence: The Quest From Biological Programs to Semantic Chains The Shaman's Tale The Initiation Tale: The Maiden's Tragedy Hierarchy The Awareness of Rank Ritua…
Religion, Reductionism, and the Seduction of Epistemology
Cognitive and Ideological Aspects of Divine Anthropomorphism
After overstressing the experiential andsui generisaspects of religion, recent scholarship has returned to the exploration of the cognitive dimensions of religious phenomena (while still neglecting their ideological and evolutionary aspects). This article explores the cognitive aspects of divine anthropomorphism, approaching anthropomorphism as a metaphor for human agency. At the same time, the ideological aspects of anthropomorphic representatio…
Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West: Essays on Magic, Religion and Science
Religion Defined and Explained
Religion and Political Power
Religion and Political Power
What raw materials are used in the manufacture of religion
Postmodern Disseminations and Cognitive Constraints
Pascal Boyer, Tradition as Truth and Communication: a Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990, x + 140 pp., $49.95 ISBN 0 521 37417 0. PASCAL BOYER, The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: a Cognitive Theory of Religion. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1994, 15 + 324 pp., $35.00 ISBN 0 520 07559 5. Pascal Boyer (ed), Cognitive Aspects of Religious Symbolism. Cambridge, Cambridge University…
Religious Experience Reconsideredas an example of theoretical assertiveness in the study of religion
The publication of Religious Experience Reconsidered is one more indication that the incoherent mixture of coyness and braggadocio that for decades has characterized the study of religion and other disciplines, is finally giving way to honest theoretical assertiveness. Taves' book is a careful treatment of experience deemed religious that manages to do justice to the recurrent features of what people tend to experience in such contexts, while als…
Response Theory, Quasi-theory and Pseudo-theory in the Study of Religion
This paper offers a series of critical observations on the essays that emerged from the roundtable co-sponsored by the North American Association for the Study of Religion and the Critical Theory and Discourses in Religion Group of the American Academy of Religion. Rather than simply responding to each paper, the essay takes these essays to provide a small but suggestive window into the work of theoretically-minded scholars of religion
Cognitive and Ideological Aspects of Divine Anthropomorphism
After overstressing the experiential andsui generisaspects of religion, recent scholarship has returned to the exploration of the cognitive dimensions of religious phenomena (while still neglecting their ideological and evolutionary aspects). This article explores the cognitive aspects of divine anthropomorphism, approaching anthropomorphism as a metaphor for human agency. At the same time, the ideological aspects of anthropomorphic representatio…
On the Production of Religious Configurations
Research on the emergence of the configuration known as “religion” requires tracing the articulation among biological, psychological and social processes. This research must take into account evolutionary approaches; first, in terms of hominid evolution, for it is only by taking into consideration work on symbolization, language development, the capacity to engage in metacognition and cooperation, the tendency to form hierarchies, engage in viole…
Towards a Natural History of Religion
Taking as point of departure Walter Burkert's work, this article seeks to theorise the relationship between needing and getting, choreographed by ritual and mythology, and the formal excess that characterises religious practices. While the formal complexity that characterises ritual activity and doctrinal elaboration reminds us of the parallels between religions and the aesthetic realm, the fact that the satisfaction of the needs of organisms is …
Religion, Reductionism, and the Seduction of Epistemology
Religion and Political Power
Journal Article Religion and Political Power, edited by Gustavo Benavides and M. W. Daly. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989, 196 pp. $44.50 Get access Helen A. Berger Helen A. Berger Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 51, Issue 3, Fall 1990, Pages 332–333, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711184 Published: 01 October 1990
Religion and Political Power
Religion and Political Power
Religion Defined and Explained
Cognitive and Ideological Aspects of Divine Anthropomorphism
After overstressing the experiential andsui generisaspects of religion, recent scholarship has returned to the exploration of the cognitive dimensions of religious phenomena (while still neglecting their ideological and evolutionary aspects). This article explores the cognitive aspects of divine anthropomorphism, approaching anthropomorphism as a metaphor for human agency. At the same time, the ideological aspects of anthropomorphic representatio…
Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West: Essays on Magic, Religion and Science
Religion, Reductionism, and the Seduction of Epistemology
Latin American Catholicism, Comprometido and Compromised
L'auteur traite des tensions qui existent entre l'engagement (compromiso) et le compromis dans l'histoire du catholicisme latino-americain. Lorsque l'on remonte a la conquete espagnole et aux periodes coloniale et republicaine, il est clair que le catholicisme a du jouer des roles contradictoires: legitimer ses relations vis-a-vis du pouvoir en place et en meme temps defendre les droits des opprimes. Les tensions entre sa mission et ses compromis…
Postmodern Disseminations and Cognitive Constraints
Pascal Boyer, Tradition as Truth and Communication: a Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990, x + 140 pp., $49.95 ISBN 0 521 37417 0. PASCAL BOYER, The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: a Cognitive Theory of Religion. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1994, 15 + 324 pp., $35.00 ISBN 0 520 07559 5. Pascal Boyer (ed), Cognitive Aspects of Religious Symbolism. Cambridge, Cambridge University…
Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions
Preface Culture in a Landscape: Situating Religion Beyond Culture Sociobiology? A Common World: Reduction and Validation Escape and Offerings Finger Sacrifice Biology, Fantasy, and Ritual Castration and Circumcision Scapegoats Life for Life The Core of a Tale Caught up in Tales The Propp Sequence: The Quest From Biological Programs to Semantic Chains The Shaman's Tale The Initiation Tale: The Maiden's Tragedy Hierarchy The Awareness of Rank Ritua…
What raw materials are used in the manufacture of religion
Towards a Natural History of Religion
Taking as point of departure Walter Burkert's work, this article seeks to theorise the relationship between needing and getting, choreographed by ritual and mythology, and the formal excess that characterises religious practices. While the formal complexity that characterises ritual activity and doctrinal elaboration reminds us of the parallels between religions and the aesthetic realm, the fact that the satisfaction of the needs of organisms is …
Afterreligion after Religion
Journal Article Afterreligion after Religion Get access Gustavo Benavides Gustavo Benavides Gustavo Benavides is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University, Villanova PA 19085-1699 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 69, Issue 2, June 2001, Pages 449–458, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/69.2.449 Published: 0…
There Is Data for Religion
Journal Article There Is Data for Religion Get access Gustavo Benavides Gustavo Benavides Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 71, Issue 4, December 2003, Pages 895–903, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfg105 Published: 01 December 2003
Die Macht Der Dinge. Geschichte Und Theorie Sakraler Objekte – Karl‐Heinz Kohl
Che Cos’è La Religione: Temi, Metodi, Problemi – Giovanni Filoramo
Irrational Experiences, Heroic Deeds And The Extraction Of Surplus
Through a heroic deed one grabs reality and bends it to one's will, paying no consideration to everyday constraints, to ordinary morality or even to the rules of logic. Ultimately, a heroic deed must appear as gratuitous, as grounded upon itself, as similar in this regard to Schmitt's sovereign decision. Among scholars of religion as much as literary figures, the concern with the heroic act goes hand in hand with the concern with irrational exper…
Western Religion and the Self-Canceling of Modernity
The extreme character of western modernity is the result of the interaction of two contradictory processes. On the one hand, the cultivation of interiority, reflexivity, and thus of subjective freedom, which antedates Christianity, and which is also found in other cultures, but which Christianity intensified by equating religion with 'faith.' On the other, the need to assert one's freedom against the attempts on the part of a church, which, while…
Die kulturellen Werte Europas
The Queen of the Sciences Speaks, Softly
Response Theory, Quasi-theory and Pseudo-theory in the Study of Religion
This paper offers a series of critical observations on the essays that emerged from the roundtable co-sponsored by the North American Association for the Study of Religion and the Critical Theory and Discourses in Religion Group of the American Academy of Religion. Rather than simply responding to each paper, the essay takes these essays to provide a small but suggestive window into the work of theoretically-minded scholars of religion
On the Production of Religious Configurations
Research on the emergence of the configuration known as “religion” requires tracing the articulation among biological, psychological and social processes. This research must take into account evolutionary approaches; first, in terms of hominid evolution, for it is only by taking into consideration work on symbolization, language development, the capacity to engage in metacognition and cooperation, the tendency to form hierarchies, engage in viole…
Religious Experience Reconsideredas an example of theoretical assertiveness in the study of religion
The publication of Religious Experience Reconsidered is one more indication that the incoherent mixture of coyness and braggadocio that for decades has characterized the study of religion and other disciplines, is finally giving way to honest theoretical assertiveness. Taves' book is a careful treatment of experience deemed religious that manages to do justice to the recurrent features of what people tend to experience in such contexts, while als…
Christianity in Latin America
Portrait: Ann Taves
As the first invitee to this portrait section trained as a scholar of religion and situated in a department of religious studies, I was interested to see how previous scholars trained in anthropology and sociology positioned themselves in relation to ‘religion’ as an object of study. It seems we all do so gingerly. Although my graduate work was in the history of Christianity with a focus on American religious history, since the early 1990s I have…
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