Chasing Down Religion - In the Sights of History and the Cognitive Sciences - Panayotis Pachis
Do Relics Do? Making a Comparative Place for 'Presence' in the Comparative Study of Relics
Chasing Down Religion - In the Sights of History and the Cognitive Sciences - Panayotis Pachis
Douglas Robinson [+]
ROBINSON DOUGLAS is a former student and teaching assistant of Luther Martin at the University of Vermont where he graduaded Phi Beta Kappa with honors in Religion in 2009. Douglas’s research on method and theory and relics has resulted in numerous undergraduate conference presentations and grant funding. His honors thesis was entitled Strategies of Ritual Presences: Relics in Cross-Cultural
Perspective.
Description
Douglas Robinson discusses the history of relics primarily within the studies of Christianity and Buddhism. He also considers the evolutionary psychology of relics.