Funded by the Faculty of Theology and the Vice Chancellor’s Fund
Hosted by the Laboratory on Theories of Religion at the Department of the Study of Religion and the Research Program on Religion, Cognition and Culture
Faculty of Theology, Taasingegade 3, Building 1441, DK-8000 Aarhus C
Armin W. Geertz, Professor, Department of the Study of Religion
Jeppe Sinding Jensen, Associate Professor, Department of the Study of Religion
8.00-9.00 | Registration (Foyeren) |
9.00-9.15 | Welcome by the Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Carsten Riis (Auditorium 1) |
9.15-9.30 | Opening remarks by Armin W. Geertz (Auditorium 1) |
9.30-10.30 | Keynote: William Paden, “Genres of evolutionary science, new patterns in comparative religion” (Auditorium 1) |
10.30-11.00 | Coffee |
11.00-12.00 | Keynote: E. Thomas Lawson, “Recognizing patterns and finding components” (Auditorium 1) |
12.00-13.00 | Lunch |
13.00-14.00 | Keynote: Luther H. Martin, “Origins of religion, cognition and culture: the bowerbird syndrome” (Auditorium 1) |
14.00-14.45 | Robert N. McCauley, “The importance of being earnest: The fundamental influence of the cognitive representation of action on religious ritual systems” |
14.45-15.30 | Henrik Høgh-Olesen, “The sacrifice, the gift, and the encounter: The reciprocity-programme in religious rituals and in man’s everyday interactions” |
14.00-14.45 | Jesper Sørensen & Pierre Lienard, “Tools for/of thought” |
14.45-15.30 | Joseph Bulbulia, “The cognitive origins of religion: What cultural evolution doesn’t explain” |
15.30-16.00 | Coffee |
16.00-16.45 | Tim Adamson, “Thinking with things: The ritual of thought” |
16.45-17.30 | Tamás Bíró, “Liturgical linguistics: The syntax of communicating with the super-human agent in Judaism” |
17.30-18.00 | Andreas Roepstorff, “Ascription of agency and emotional resonance in religious and quasi-religious experiences” |
16.00-16.45 | Tom Sjöblom, “Apetales: Exploring the deep roots of religious communication” |
16.45-17.30 | Lieve Orye, “Reconsidering the ‘origins of religion’ question: How should we think religion as part of evolution?” |
17.30-18.00 | Douglas L. Gragg, “Cognitive science of religion: A comprehensive bibliography” |
18.00-19.00 | Reception |
Free evening
9.00-9.45 | Mark Addis, “Wittgenstein and the naturalness of religious belief” |
9.45-10.30 | Benson Saler, “Culture in phylogenetic perspective: An appreciation of the contributions of A. I. Hallowell” |
9.00-9.45 | Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen, “Methodological difficulties with the origins of religion” |
9.45-10.30 | David Warburton, “One version of the origins of religion based on analysis of the archaeological evidence” |
10.30-11.00 | Coffee |
11.00-11.45 | István Czachesz, “The dynamics of belief: The example of early Christian religion” |
11.45-12.30 | Thomas Hoffmann, “Peekaboo or Semites taking the veil: Cognition, concealing, and display” |
11.00-11.45 | Craig Bardsley, “Cognitive and cultural evolution of religion: An archaeological perspective” |
11.45-12.30 | Mads Jessen & Niels Johannsen, “The extra-somatic origins of religion” |
12.30-13.30 | Lunch |
13.30-14.15 | Donald Wiebe, “Are the neurosciences essential to the development of a realistic and relevant science of religion?” |
14.15-15.00 | Peter Westh, “Anthropomorphism in god concepts: Cautionary tales from the Ancient Near East” |
13.30-14.15 | William Lee “W” McCorkle Jr., “From corpse to concept: A cognitive account on the ritualized treatment of dead bodies” |
14.15-15.00 | Gregory Shushan, “Ancient Egyptian afterlife conceptions in the Old and MiddleKingdoms, and the near-death experience” |
15.00-15.30 | Coffee |
15.30-16.15 | Armin W. Geertz, “The origins of morality and religion” |
16.15-16.45 | Gretchen Koch, “Care of the soul: Empathy in a dualistic worldview” |
16.45-17.15 | Uffe Schjødt, “Ritual embodiment and homeostatic activities” |
17.15-17.45 | Anders Lisdorf, “What’s HIDD’n in the HADD? - A cognitive conjuring trick?” |
15.30-16.15 | William Waldron, “Buddhist views on the causal relation between language, cognition and evolution of worlds” |
16.15-16.45 | Marie Vejrup Nielsen, “A beginning, a middle and an end? A narrative approach to the understanding of human nature” |
16.45-17.15 | Anita Maria Leopold, “The origin of evil and Umberto Eco’s Mysterious Flame” |
17.15-17.45 | Jason Harrison, “Conceptual integration in religious creativity” |
18.30 | Festive Dinner |
9.00-12.00 | Founding General Assembly of the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion (including coffee around 10.30) (Auditorium 1) |
12.00-13.00 | Lunch |
13.00-13.30 | Jeppe Sinding Jensen, “Culture in Mind. Yes - but how does it get there? Some reflections on relations between ontogenetic development and the philosophy of language” |
13.30-14.00 | Marianna Shahknovich, “Stage theory of cognitive development and the origins of mythology” |
14.00-14.30 | Panagiotis Mitkidis, “The origins of symbolism and the origins of religion: the function of the brain in collaboration with the physical and cultural environment” |
13.00-13.30 | Peter Jackson, “The recognition of religion: Archaeological diagnosis and implicit theorizing” |
13.30-14.00 | Andreas Lieberoth, “Religion and the emergence of human imagination” |
14.00-14.30 | Giorgos Gaitanos, “The search for origins in the study of religion and of human societies” |
14.30-15.00 | Conclusion |
15.00-15.30 | Coffee |
Departures or free evening
