Image courtesy of Salvatore Vuono / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Far Away from Solid Modernity (Revolution: Global Trends and Regional Issues) Zygmunt Bauman on liquid modernity and our unfolding apocalypse. “[We live in a society] which, moving relentlessly towards the apocalypse, does not care (does not want to care or is not able to) about the security and…
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Religion and the origins of civilization: The conversation continues
In a recent article here — “Rewriting the history of religion, civilization, and the human mind” — I talked about the article/essay in the June issue of National Geographic that details the discovery of Göbekli Tepe, a temple complex in southern Turkey that promises to overturn commonly accepted notions about the role of religion and…
Rewriting the history of religion, civilization, and the human mind
As reported by National Geographic, an unearthed temple complex in southern Turkey is threatening to overturn our long-held assumptions about the relationship between religion, the human mind, and civilization. Interestingly, this shares a thematic parallel with what’s going on in today’s neuroscientific quest for the basis of the human mind.