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SUMMARY:The Woolf of Regent Street
DESCRIPTION:Sunday Sessions in The Heronry \nJoin us on the first Sunday of the month in September\, October and November to discuss Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway\, To the Lighthouse and a A Room of One’s Own. \nWe will meet in the shop\, 4.30-5.45 to discuss two of Woolf’s novels and her argument about the barriers to women writing. Whether you have read them before or never read anything by Virginia Woolf\, we are curious to hear your thoughts and share our experiences of reading her work. \n6 September: Mrs Dalloway\n4 October: To the Lighthouse\n1 November: A Room of One’s Own \nIn order to sign up we ask that you buy the three books from us or a £30 Heron Books voucher. Spaces are limited and we ask that you only sign up if you can make all three discussions.
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LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Bristol Humanists: Robin Dunbar on How Religion Evolved and why it survives
DESCRIPTION:We look forward to supporting this event organised by the Bristol Humanists with Robin Dunbar\, author of How Religion Evolved. \nWhen did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion’s evolutionary purpose? And in our increasingly secular world\, why has it endured? \nEvery society in the history of humanity has lived with religion. In How Religion Evolved\, its origins are tracked back to what Robin Dunbar terms the ‘mystical stance\,’ the aspect of human psychology that predisposes us to believe in a transcendent world\, and which makes an encounter with the spiritual possible. He will explore world religions and their many derivatives\, as well as religions of experience practised by hunter-gatherer societies. This instinct is not a peculiar human quirk\, an aberration on our otherwise efficient evolutionary journey. Rather\, religion confers an advantage: it can benefit our individual health and wellbeing\, but\, more importantly\, it fosters social bonding at large scale\, helping hold fractious societies together. These dimensions might provide the basis for an overarching theory for why and how humans are religious\, and so help unify the myriad strands that currently populate this field. Drawing on path-breaking research\, clinical case studies and fieldwork from around the globe\, as well as stories of charismatic cult leaders\, mysterious sects and lost faiths\, How Religion Evolved will offer a fascinating and far-reaching analysis of this quintessentially human impulse to believe. \nRobin Dunbar is Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford. He is perhaps most famous for the ‘Dunbar Number’\, which is the 150 individuals that each human can sustain meaningful relationships with. His work in anthropology and psychology focuses on the mechanisms that underpin social bonding in primates in general\, and humans in particular. He considers that understanding these mechanisms\, which includes religion\, and the functions that those relationships serve\, will give us insights into how humans have managed to create large scale societies using a form of psychology that is evolutionarily adapted to very small scale societies\, and why these mechanisms are less than perfect in the modern world. He has authored numerous books in the fields of evolutionary psychology and anthropology. He is also a patron of Humanists UK\, and was one of the first national Darwin Day lecturers when the event was established in the early 2000’s. \nEveryone is welcome. Bristol Humanists members have FREE entry. Non-members are asked for a contribution of £5/£2.
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LOCATION:Bristol Grain Store\, Bristol YHA\, 14 Narrow Quay\, Bristol\, BS1 4QA
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