Animism and Philosophy of Religion -

Animism and Philosophy of Religion

Tiddy Smith (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
VIII, 371 Seiten
2023 | 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-94169-7 (ISBN)
139,09 inkl. MwSt

Mainstream philosophy of religion has persistently failed to engage seriously or critically with animist beliefs and practices. The field that is now called "philosophy of religion" could quite easily be renamed "philosophy of theism" with few lecturers on the subject having to change their lecture notes. It is the aim of this volume to rectify that failure and to present animism as a live option among the plethora of religious worldviews.

The volume addresses four major questions: 1. What is this thing called "animism"? 2. Are there any arguments for or against animist belief and practice? 3. What is the relationship between animism, naturalism, and the sciences? And 4. Should we take animism seriously?

Animism and Philosophy of Religion is intended to be the first authoritative scholarly volume on the issue of animism and its place in the philosophy of religion. Ambitiously, it aims to act as the cornerstone volume for future work on the subject and as a key text for courses engaging with the subject.


Tiddy Smith is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Indonesia. He is the author of The Methods of Science and Religion (Rowman and Littlefield), has contributed to Theism and Atheism: Opposing Arguments in Philosophy (eds. Graham Oppy and Joseph Korerski) and has published articles in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy and Philosophia.

Chapter One: Introduction.- Chapter Two: Animism and Cognitive Science of Religion: A Critical Perspective.- Chapter Three: Wilkinson's "Animism and Cognitive Science of Religion".- Chapter Four: Edward Tylor's Animism and Its Intellectual Aftermath.- Chapter Five: Animisms: Practical Indigenous Philosophies.- Chapter Six: New Animism as Cultural Critique?.- Chapter Seven: Animism and Naturalism: Practice and Theory.- Chapter Eight: Sensible Animism.- Chapter Nine: Animism: Its Scope and Limits.- Chapter Ten: Scientific Animism.- Chapter Eleven: Childhood Animism and Innate Belief.- Chapter Twelve: An Epistemic Defense of Animism.- Chapter Thirteen: Robotic Animism: The Ethics of Attributing Minds and Personality to Robots with Artificial Intelligence.- Chapter Fourteen: Towards a Cosmopolitan Animism

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion
Zusatzinfo VIII, 371 p.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 588 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
Schlagworte Anthropology • childhood animism • Cognitive Science of Religion • Ecology • innateness • Maori • Māori • Naturalism • religious knowledge • ultimate reality
ISBN-10 3-030-94169-8 / 3030941698
ISBN-13 978-3-030-94169-7 / 9783030941697
Zustand Neuware
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