Luther H. Martin, Deep History, Secular Theory: Historical and Scientific Studies of Religion (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014), 364 pp. ISBN 978-1-61451- 619-4. €99.95 /US$140.00 hbk.

Authors

  • Leonardo Ambasciano Masaryk University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.33928

Keywords:

cognitive science of religion, historiography, history of religions, poststructuralism

Abstract

Luther H. Martin, Deep History, Secular Theory: Historical and Scientific Studies of Religion (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014), 364 pp. ISBN 978-1-61451- 619-4. €99.95 /US$140.00 hbk.

Author Biography

  • Leonardo Ambasciano, Masaryk University

    Leonardo Ambasciano is a lecturer at the Department for the Study of Religions, Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic). He earned his PhD in Historical Studies at the University of Turin (Italy) in 2014 with a cognitive and evolutionary analysis of the ancient Roman female cult of Bona Dea.

References

Smail, D. L. 2008. On Deep History and the Brain. Los Angeles, Berkeley and London: University of California Press.

Sulloway, F. J. 1998. Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives. London: Abacus.

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Published

2018-03-29

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1-2 (2016): Special Issue: Digital Humanities, Cognitive Historiography , and the Study of Religion

Section

Book Reviews

How to Cite

Ambasciano, L. (2018). Luther H. Martin, Deep History, Secular Theory: Historical and Scientific Studies of Religion (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014), 364 pp. ISBN 978-1-61451- 619-4. €99.95 /US$140.00 hbk. Journal of Cognitive Historiography, 3(1-2), 201-203. https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.33928