Religion, Habitat, and Cosmos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20067268 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eugene Halton (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 23-44 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | From the Axial Age to the Moral Revolution (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9781137473509_2 |
| OpenAlex | W2501005503 |
| ISBN | 9781137473509 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
Religions, as Stuart-Glennie conceived it, is rooted in intuitions and conceptions of causation, developed out of relations to the physical and social environments. This starting point allowed a perceptive, and experiential element to religion as expressive of life-experience, not simply of human sociality per se. Stuart-Glennie characterized the origins of religion as Panzoonist, literally "all life," and this chapter describes how he distinguished it from anthropologist E. B. Tylor's well-known idea of animism. He argued that with civilizational structures rooted in what he terms "a colonist-origin theory," panzooinist belief transitioned into supernaturalist beliefs of polytheism and later, monotheism. His racial assumptions involved in his "colonist-origin theory" are criticized, and his understanding of supernaturalism as legitimating the dominant elite and its relation to the moral revolution are discussed. Stuart-Glennie's understanding of religion is contrasted with that of Emile Durkheim.Keywordspanzooinismanimismsupernalsupernaturalismcolonist-origin theory of civilizationEmile Durkheim
Animism · Causation · Epistemology · Islam · Monotheism · Philosophical anthropology · Relation (database) · Sociality · Sociology · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Tourism and Spaces
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |