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Religion, Emergence, and the Origins of Meaning: Beyond Durkheim and Rappaport
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Contents
Acknowledgements
PART 1: The Emergent Dynamics of Religion
1: Religion as an Emergent Phenomenon
Introduction
An Overview of the Argument
Background to the Emergent Theories of Durkheim and
Rappaport
Assumptions I will Make in this Study
2: Rappaport, Revisited
Introduction
Rappaport’s Theory of Religion
An Alternative Account of Rappaport
The Example of Haitian Voodoo
Summary
3: Emergence and Semiotics – a Primer
Emergent Systems
Semiotics
Important Ideas from Other Theorists
Summary
4: Religion’s Emergent Characteristics
The Importance of Human Culture
The Emergent Dynamics of Human Culture
Teleodynamic Religion and the Role of Symbolic Reference
Semantic Closure, Strange Loops, and the Creation of a
Social ‘Self’
PART 2: The Emergence of Meaning in Religion
5: David Sloan Wilson and Daniel Dennett – Religion without
Meaning
Wilson’s Thesis
Is Religion Best Assessed by a Biological Theory?
Daniel Dennett’s View of Religion
Response from an Emergent Approach to Religion
6: Émile Durkheim and the Emergence of Meaningful Social Agency
Emergence and Cultural Sociality
Why Religion?
The Problem with Durkheim’s Conception of Religion
Durkheim and Emergent Meaning
7: Varieties of Religious Meaning
Religion offers ‘Therapeutic Truth’
Social Orientation
Emergent Selves needing Orientation
Different Ways of Considering the ‘Spiritual Map’, and Their
Implications
Summary
Appendix: Confucianism as a Test Case
Works Cited
Index