An Ethology of Religion and Art: Belief as Behavior
What’s the problem?What’s the solution?NotesReferencesI Theorizing religion and artThe ethology of art (and religion)The ethology of artNotesReferencesThe cognitive science of religion: An artless artCognitive science—art or artless?Restoring the art to cognitive science: the ethology of art and religionNotesReferencesSkill and the sacred: Redefining art, redefining religionDefinitionDefining “art”Redefining “art”Defining “religion”Redefining religionNotesReferencesBeauty and religion. Seeing the world betterBeauty as the special in artThe anthropology of art: beauty and agencyThe ascription of specialness as the common ancestor of art and religionNotesReferencesArt and the sacredone: experiencing the sacred in the profanetwo: seeing the invisibleNotesReferencesWisdom and the personality of realityWhat is art (and religion) for? What do they do?Are you paying attention?to art and religionNotesReferencesII Applying the theoryDivination: The vanishing point of religionFrom caves to cities: Religion and the earliest artTime lineUnearthing prehistoric religion—listening for the music of the stone ageFrom caves (and elsewhere)to Gobekli Tepeto Qatalhoyukthrough paradoxically persistent changeto the earliest citiesNotesReferencesThe art of Biblical prophecy: The technocracy of the textThe prophetsProphecy as performanceThe art of the textNotesReferencesWhere is the art we have lost in religion?Where is the religion we have lost in art?Conclusion
