It Was Like That When I Came In”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12201837 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nathan Colborne (Nipissing University100 College Drive, Box 5002, North Bay, on P1B 8L7Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4-5 |
| Pages | 512-529 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Method & Theory in the Study of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0943-3058 • E-ISSN: 1570-0682 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15700682-12341376 |
| OpenAlex | W2408854945 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 19 |
David Sloan Wilson argues that religion has evolved in human beings as a group adaptation. Part of Wilson’s argument relies on an analysis of a randomized sample of religions that he selects from The Encyclopedia of Religion . One significant methodological problem with this strategy is that Wilson offloads the work of defining the boundaries of each religious tradition to the encyclopedia he uses and allows the category ‘religion’ to do the conceptual heavy lifting in his argument. An examination of the way this category is used by Wilson will demonstrate that an insufficient attentiveness to the use of the word ‘religion’ makes Wilson’s argument circular and invalid. Wilson’s argument would be strengthened by rejecting any causal role for the category ‘religion’ and examining specific practices, rituals, and other acts of identification for an adaptive advantage irrespective of their association with the category ‘religion’
Argument (complex analysis · Encyclopedia · Epistemology · Identification (biology · Linguistics · Sociology · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Study and Philosophy of Religion
Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology
Social semantics
The Interpretation of Cultures
Manufacturing Religion
Darwin's Cathedral
In Gods We Trust
The Adaptationist-Byproduct Debate on the Evolution of Religion
Breaking the Spell
Responses
Religious Studies as a Life Science
Imagined communities
Testing major evolutionary hypotheses about religion with a random sample
Ritual, emotion, and sacred symbols
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |