Instinct and Revelation: Reflections on the Origins of Numinous Perception

Instinct and Revelation: Reflections on the Origins of Numinous Perception
ISBN-10
1134384742
ISBN-13
9781134384747
Category
Political Science
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2013-10-11
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Alondra Oubre

Description

Instinct and Revelation revolves around the hypothesis that ritual behavior and imaginative awareness in early hominids may have helped to spawn the evolution of the human brain and human consciousness. Using an integral perspective comparable with systems theory, the book carefully interweaves fact and theory from physical and cultural anthropology, psychobiology and the brain sciences, psychology, and to a lesser degree, eastern philosophy. This book breaks from tradition by discussing from a primarily anthropological perspective the origin of human consciousness within a philosophical framework that embraces precepts from human evolution, evolutionary psychology, the neurosciences, biocultural anthropology, and cultural symbolic anthropology.

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