Religion in the Emergence of Civilization PDF

Ian Hodder ist Dunleavie Family Professor für Archäologie an der Stanford University. Als Fellow der British Academy erhielt er zahlreiche Auszeichnungen für seine Leistungen, darunter die Oscar-Montelius-Medaille der Swedish Society of Antiquaries, die Huxley Memorial Medal des Royal Anthropological Institute, den Fyssen International Prize und die Gold Medal des Archaeological Institute of America sowie Ehrendoktorwürden der Universitäten Bristol und Leiden. Hodder ist Autor zahlreicher Bücher, darunter Symbols in Action (Cambridge, 1982), Reading the Past (Cambridge, 1982) und Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things (2012).

Religion in the Emergence of Civilization pdf von Ian Hodder

This book presents an interdisciplinary study of the role of spirituality and religious ritual in the emergence of complex societies. Involving an eminent group of natural scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and theologians, this volume examines ?atalh?y?k as a case study. A nine-thousand-year old town in central Turkey, ?atalh?y?k was first excavated in the 1960s and has since become integral to understanding the symbolic and ritual worlds of the early farmers and village-dwellers in the Middle East. It is thus an ideal location for exploring theories about the role of religion in early settled life. This book provides a unique overview of current debates concerning religion and its historical variations. Through exploration of themes including the integration of the spiritual and the material, the role of belief in religion, the cognitive bases for religion, and religion's social roles, this book situates the results from ?atalh?y?k within a broader understanding of the Neolithic in the Middle East.