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Theology after the birth of God = atheist conceptions in cognition and culture /

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Title/Author:	Theology after the birth of God/ F.LeRon Shults.
Reminder of title:	atheist conceptions in cognition and culture /
Author:	Shults, F.LeRon.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan : : 2014.,
Description:	256 p.
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	Atheism. -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137358033 (electronic bk.) :

Theology after the birth of God = atheist conceptions in cognition and culture /
Shults, F.LeRon.

Theology after the birth of Godatheist conceptions in cognition and culture /[electronic resource] :F.LeRon Shults. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014. - 256 p. - Radical theologies.

Electronic book text.

1. The Gods are Born - and we Have Borne Them 2. Anthropomorphic Promiscuity and Sociographic Prudery 3. The Scientific Discipline of Theology 4. Arguing about Axiological Engagement 5. Religious Family Systems 6. Letting Gods Go: Naturalism and Secularism 7. Theology after 'the Birth of God'.

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Engaging recent developments within the bio-cultural study of religion, Shults unveils the evolved cognitive and coalitional mechanisms by which god-conceptions are engendered in minds and nurtured in societies. He discovers and attempts to liberate a radically atheist trajectory that has long been suppressed within the discipline of theology.The gods are born - and we have borne them! This proclamation, derived from insights in the biocultural study of religion, may engender even more atheism than Nietzsche's message about the death of God. Engaging recent empirical findings and theoretical developments within a wide variety of evolutionary and social sciences, F. LeRon Shults unveils the cognitive and coalitional mechanisms by which god-conceptions are bred in human minds and nurtured in human cultures. Shared imaginative engagement with punitive supernatural agents emerges naturally as a result of inherited tendencies that lead to the over-detection of agents and the over-protection of in-groups. The integration of these tendencies helped our early ancestors survive by fostering cooperation and commitment in small-scale coalitions. However, these religious traits also generate faulty interpretations of nature and violent inscriptions of society. Arguing for the importance of having the talk about religious reproduction, especially in complex, pluralistic environments increasingly shaped by naturalism and secularism, Shults proposes the liberation of a radically atheist trajectory that has for too long been suppressed within the discipline of theology.

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F. LeRon Shults is professor of theology and philosophy at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway and the author or editor of twelve other books, including his recent Iconoclastic Theology: Gilles Deleuze and the Secretion of Atheism (2014). Shults is also a senior research fellow at the Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion in Boston, USA.

ISBN: 1137358033 (electronic bk.) :£60.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

557261
Atheism.

LC Class. No.: BL51 / .S5246 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 210

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