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Creation of the Sacred: a Cognitivist View

Creation of the Sacred: a Cognitivist View 88 Hill), whose own book, In Search of Dreamtime: the Q,uest for the Origin of Religion (University of Chicago Press, 1993), was the subject of a similar review symposium in this journal (MTSR 8/3 [1996]); and Daniel C. Dennett (Rutgers University, New Jersey), the renowned philosopher who has helped to develop neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory as a framework for a remarkably new understanding of the evolution of mind and culture. Walter Burkert's reply to his reviewers concludes the symposium. Bishop's University, Quebec A COGNITIVIST VIEW CREATION OF THE SACRED: A COGNITIVIST VIEW PASCAL BOYER Readers of Walter Burkert's other books, Greek Religion and The Orientializing Revolution in particular, will expect the Creation of the Sacred to be both original and meticulously argued, with brilliant flights of speculation backed by impeccable scholarship. They will not be dis- appointed ; the present volume, in contrast to much current writing on cultural phenomena, uses clear writing, documented evidence, and rational inference in the pursuit of a sustained and consequential argument. In this short review I will discuss some points on which I think Burkert does not go as far as the evidence could lead him. What follows is not so much a rejoinder http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Method & Theory in the Study of Religion Brill

Creation of the Sacred: a Cognitivist View

Boyer, Pascal
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion , Volume 10 (1): 5 – Jan 1, 1998
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88 Hill), whose own book, In Search of Dreamtime: the Q,uest for the Origin of Religion (University of Chicago Press, 1993), was the subject of a similar review symposium in this journal (MTSR 8/3 [1996]); and Daniel C. Dennett (Rutgers University, New Jersey), the renowned philosopher who has helped to develop neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory as a framework for a remarkably new understanding of the evolution of mind and culture. Walter Burkert's reply to his reviewers concludes the symposium. Bishop's University, Quebec A COGNITIVIST VIEW CREATION OF THE SACRED: A COGNITIVIST VIEW PASCAL BOYER Readers of Walter Burkert's other books, Greek Religion and The Orientializing Revolution in particular, will expect the Creation of the Sacred to be both original and meticulously argued, with brilliant flights of speculation backed by impeccable scholarship. They will not be dis- appointed ; the present volume, in contrast to much current writing on cultural phenomena, uses clear writing, documented evidence, and rational inference in the pursuit of a sustained and consequential argument. In this short review I will discuss some points on which I think Burkert does not go as far as the evidence could lead him. What follows is not so much a rejoinder

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