#1012 Lance Grande - The Evolution of Religions: A History of Related Traditions

Hello, everybody. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricard Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Lance Grandi. He's a distinguished service curator emeritor at the Field Museum. And today we're talking we're talking about his book, The Evolution of Religions, a History of Related Traditions. So Doctor Brandy, welcome to the show. It's a big pleasure to have you one. Well thank you, Carl. So we're going to talk about the evolution of religions and how they relate to one another. So just to before we get into religion itself, let me just ask you a little bit about some of the methodology that you apply. In this kind of work and in your book specifically. So could you start by telling us about

Evolutionary systematics, what is that? Exactly. Well, in it's modern context. It's a classification of groups of things based on uh Історика релішенші And uh shared characteristics. Um

We basically look at you know Characteristics that We think are Uh uniquely uh derived for groups and that's how we build these trees that

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