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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: How the Sociology and History of Religion can meet 
 the Cognitive and Psychological Sciences: What we need from them and they 
 need from us
DTSTART:20170626T161500Z
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DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture presented by Prof Armin Geertz (Aarhus Universit
 y)\n\nThis talk will address a wide variety of issues in introductory form
  and\, hopefully\, give at least an indication of the possible avenues of 
 interaction and cooperation between the human\, social\, and natural scien
 ces. There are at least three obvious meeting places or intersections:\n\n
 \n	evolution\, deep history\, and social evolution (biological\, neurologi
 cal\, and social theory)\,\n	the minds in\, behind\, and beyond texts\, mo
 numents\, material objects and images (history and archaeology)\, and\n	th
 e minds and bodies of living religious people (anthropology and sociology)
 .\n\n\nOf course\, there are obvious problems in any multimodal\, multidis
 ciplinary attempt. Each science has its own concepts\, theories\, methods\
 , narrative and procedural styles\, all of which create mutually incompreh
 ensible worlds of their own. Thus\, there is a great need for translation 
 between the sciences and disciplines.\n\nWhy should we\, one might ask\, u
 se so much effort when there is so much else to do? Why should we brush up
  on our knowledge of chemistry\, the brain\, genetics\, zoology\, and evol
 utionary theory? We have challenges enough in learning languages\, trying 
 to decipher highly exotic texts\, or keeping track of informants in the fi
 eld. The answer to these questions is that there have been considerable br
 eakthroughs in the sciences (and archaeology) concerning human evolution\,
  physiology\, neuropsychology\, and social behavior. These breakthroughs d
 emand explanation. On the one hand\, no explanation will be adequate witho
 ut the knowledge and competencies of the humanities and social sciences. O
 n the other hand\, explanations by scholars in the humanities and social s
 ciences will not be adequate without the knowledge and competencies of the
  natural and psychological sciences. Human beings evolve\, live\, and die\
 , leaving their mark in genes\, culture\, society\, and the environment. A
 ll of the sciences and disciplines have important contributions to make in
  understanding and explaining who we are\, where we came from\, and where 
 we are going. Surely\, these are issues of central importance to the scien
 tific study of religion!\n\n\n
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest-lecture-armin-geertz/
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