The Neo-Darwinian Approach to the Study of Religion A one-day discussion meeting Chair: W. G. Runciman, University of Cambridge Discussants: Eileen Barker, London School of Economics, Mary Douglas, University College London,
Wendy James, University of Oxford, Michael Lambek, London School of Economics Friday, 28th April, 2006 British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 £20 (£10 concessions) ABOUT THIS EVENT | PROGRAMME In recent years a resurgence of interest in the anthropology and sociology of religion, which has been prompted in part by the evident falsification of the so-called "secularization thesis", has coincided with the application to the study of the origins and functions of religion of the findings of evolutionary psychologists, palaeoanthropologists, brain scientists, and cognitive and developmental psychologists working within a broadly shared neo-Darwinian paradigm. This one-day discussion meeting sponsored by the British Academy brings together four leading practitioners of the new approach with four eminent discussants well known for their own influential contributions to the study of religion. < back |
