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Modeling Religion: Simulating the Transformation of Worldviews, Lifeways, and Civilizations

Modeling Religion: Simulating the Transformation of Worldviews, Lifeways, and Civilizations

Wildman, Wesley J.
Shults, F. Leron
Wiebe, Donald

Hardcover

Series: Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation

Religion General General Computers

ISBN10: 1350367303
ISBN13: 9781350367302
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jul 11 2024
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

What role has religion played in the major civilizational transformations associated with the Neolithic Revolution, the Axial Age, and Modernity? This book introduces new methodological tools and material insights for guiding conversations about these debates.

The authors introduce a new branch of computational humanities, using computational modeling to simulate civilizational transformations. They integrate multiple theories across many disciplines, including the scientific study of religion, and evaluate the relative importance of those causal theories in processes of civilizational change. Materially, the book sheds new light on major debates among historians, archaeologists, and other social theorists on the role of religion within these major transitions.

The book tackles the urgent question of what sort of civilizational transformations might be possible in a world where the influence and significance of religion continues to decline wherever technology, education, freedom, and cultural pluralism are most advanced.

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