Kind Goddessess: an Evolutionary Perspective on Personal Prayer as a Medium through which Representational Features Resembling the Primary Caregiver Are Spread

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Kind Goddessess: an Evolutionary Perspective on Personal Prayer as a Medium through which Representational Features Resembling the Primary Caregiver Are Spread

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This article deals with the popularity of female deities among Neo-Pagans. it is argued that the current opinion on this issue is insufficient to explain certain prevalent aspects of female deities widely shared among Neo-Pagans, therefore an additionalinsight from cognitive science is adopted. It is suggested that the fitness optimal mental representation of maternally loving woman can significantly bias the mental representation of the Goddess or goddesses being female, due to the essentiality of therepresentation of maternally loving woman in cultural selection. Additionally, it is also suggested that an improvised personal prayer or ritual is the environment that closely resembles attachment to a primary caregiver, therefore the convenient environment in which "kind" female deities are especially preferred. In the end, the results from the case study, testing the hypotheses concerning the preferred deities in personal contact among Czech Neo-Pagans are provided to illustrate the

Název v anglickém jazyce

Kind Goddessess: an Evolutionary Perspective on Personal Prayer as a Medium through which Representational Features Resembling the Primary Caregiver Are Spread

Popis výsledku anglicky

This article deals with the popularity of female deities among Neo-Pagans. it is argued that the current opinion on this issue is insufficient to explain certain prevalent aspects of female deities widely shared among Neo-Pagans, therefore an additionalinsight from cognitive science is adopted. It is suggested that the fitness optimal mental representation of maternally loving woman can significantly bias the mental representation of the Goddess or goddesses being female, due to the essentiality of therepresentation of maternally loving woman in cultural selection. Additionally, it is also suggested that an improvised personal prayer or ritual is the environment that closely resembles attachment to a primary caregiver, therefore the convenient environment in which "kind" female deities are especially preferred. In the end, the results from the case study, testing the hypotheses concerning the preferred deities in personal contact among Czech Neo-Pagans are provided to illustrate the

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AA - Filosofie a náboženství

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2015

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Pantheon: Religionistický časopis

ISSN

1803-2443

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

10

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

47-55

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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