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Scholars of comparative religion ask one fundamental question: Why do humans produce religion? How do they do it, and with what consequences? The answer may seem simple, but it is not. Religion is a complex cognitive, social and physical something, a strange result of our species' evolution, which takes a lot of science to comprehend. Religious people who feel that they themselves are the experts are, indeed, wrong. Departing from his own work on new religions, particularly UFO-based systems, religion among rainforest hunter-gatherers, head-hunters in Borneo, and religion i the Mesolithic, our speaker will try to sketch an answer to the above questions and show what comparative religion is all about: To know something about everything, and everything about something.Mikael Rothstein has a MA. and Ph.D. in religious history and is Associate Professor at the Department of Language, Culture, History and Communication at SDU. His work has focused on religion among nomadic hunter-gatherers in Borneo and the Amazon, as well as religion in the mesolithic and neolithic. Over the past 25 years has written a large number of books and articles on various religious-historical topics.
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Science and Beers is a popular science talk series. The goal of Science and Beers is to make science fun, accessible and to normalise science conversations in a social setting.
Science and Beers is funded by the Novo Nordisk Fund. These events are open to everyone. The event will be in English.
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