La creazione del sacro. Orme biologiche nell'esperienza religiosa

The prose is somewhat stilted in this book. This is a translation from German and it isn't all that great. However, the ideas contained herein are worth the little extra effort it takes to read. I'm not so sure that Burkert's hypotheses about the evolutionary psychology of religion are all that robu Leggi tutto

I had to read this book for my religious thought in world perspective and all i can say is if you don't have to read it for class; Don't. It was all of the place. The author then refuses to acknowledge the fact that he speaks in terms of evolution, but never states as so. I was glad to be finished w Leggi tutto

Dalla conclusione: “La religione è emersa in questo studio come una tradizione primordiale di comunicazione seria con poteri non visibili. Il problema della convalida degli “oltremondi” non sembra avere un’unica risposta. […] Invece, io propongo l’esistenza di schemi biologici di azioni, reazioni e s Leggi tutto

Lectura muy disfrutable debido a la erudicion y variedad de ejemplos con los que Burkert ilustra su tesis. Independientemente de los objetivos del autor, cualquier persona interesada en la historia de las mentalidades religiosas encontrará buen material entre sus páginas. Por ellas circulan clásicos Leggi tutto

Consisting of seven discrete chapters, Walter Burkert's "Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions" is an insightful, stimulating, and rewarding foray into the world of mythology, with an emphasis on Biology as the determining factor in the genesis of religion in mankind's histor

Come nasce la Religione? L'Autore, Walter Burkert, è stato a lungo professore di Filologia classica all'università di Zurigo ed il suo punto di vista, esposto in questo libro, è molto interessante: la religione andrebbe vista come un fenomeno biologico prima ancora che culturale. La storia e l'antropo Leggi tutto

So the main point of this book is that “religion follows the tracks of biology”. The author offers a number of theories to explain common religious (and not strictly religious) practices from an evolutionary point of view. This human ethology approach to religion is truly fascinating. Although the a Leggi tutto

Interesting. I'm not convinced he made the case for natural religion but I do believe that religion evolved like everything else that we do as part of our response to the world around us.

Extenso estudio sobre el elemento común en las religiones antiguas. Es un libro totalmente recomendable para todos aquellos interesados en la historia de la religión.