Dimitris Xygalatas

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Dimitris Xygalatas (born in 1977), is a cognitive anthropologist and research fellow at Aarhus University and the Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University.

1 Studies
2 Career
3 Publications
4 See also
5 Links

[edit] Studies

He studied religion at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and Aarhus University, Denmark. He received his PhD from the Institute of Cognition and Culture, at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.

[edit] Career

He has studied the firewalking rituals of Europe. He conducted anthropological fieldwork in Greece, where he studied the rituals of the Anastenaria, in the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, and in San Pedro Manrique, Spain. In 2007-2008 he worked as a postdoctoral Research Fellow at Aarhus University. He is currently a research fellow at the Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. He is also a translator of academic books for Vanias Publications, in Greece.

[edit] Publications

Original Works

• In press. “Firewalking in the Balkans: High Arousal Rituals and Memory”, in: Ivan Czachesz (ed.), Changing Minds: Religion and Cognition through the Ages, Groningen Studies in Cultural Change Series, Leuven: Peeters.

• 2008. “Reductionism and the Scientific Study of Religion”, in the Greek Translation of Pascal Boyer, Et L’homme Créa les Dieux (Greek title: Και ο Άνθρωπος Έπλασε τους Θεούς, Θεσσαλονίκη: Βάνιας), pp. 9-25.

• 2007. “Firewalking and the Brain: The Physiology of High-Arousal Rituals”, in: Joseph Bulbulia, Richard Sosis, Erica Harris, Russell Genet, Cheryl Genet, and Karen Wyman (eds.) Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques, Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press, pp. 189-195.

• 2007. “The Flying Spaghetti Monster and Religious Fundamentalism”, in the Greek translation of: Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell (Greek Title: Απομυθοποίηση, Θεσσαλονίκη: Βάνιας), pp. 7-13.

• 2006. “Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion”, in the Greek Translation of Harvey Whitehouse, Modes of Religiosity (Greek title: Τύποι Θρησκευτικότητας, Θεσσαλονίκη: Βάνιας), pp. 9-92.

• 2004. with Panayotis Pachis (Eds.), Collected Essays on the Study of Religion, Thessaloniki: Vanias Publications. (Greek title: Γρηγόριος Ζιάκας, Θρησκειολογικά Ανάλεκτα).

Translations

• Forthcoming. Steven Mithen, The Prehistory of the Mind, London: Thames & Hudson 1996 (Greek title: Η Προϊστορία του Νου).

• Forthcoming. Daniel Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, London: Penguin 1995 (Greek title: Η Επικίνδυνη Θεωρία του Δαρβίνου, Θεσσαλονίκη: Βάνιας).

• 2008 (with Nickolas Roubekas). Pascal Boyer, Et L’homme Créa les Dieux. Comment Expliquer la Religion, Paris: Robert Laffont 2001 (Greek title: Και ο Άνθρωπος Έπλασε τους Θεούς, Θεσσαλονίκη: Βάνιας).

• 2007 (with Nickolas Roubekas). Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell. Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, New York: Viking (Penguin) 2006 (Greek title: Απομυθοποίηση, Θεσσαλονίκη: Βάνιας).

• 2006. Harvey Whitehouse, Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission, Oxford 2004 (Greek title: Τύποι Θρησκευτικότητας, Θεσσαλονίκη: Βάνιας).

• 2004. Luther Η. Martin, Hellenistic Religions: An Introduction, NY-Oxford 1987 (Greek title: Οι Θρησκείες της Ελληνιστικής Εποχής, Θεσσαλονίκη: Βάνιας).

• 2003. Russell McCutcheon and Willi Braun, Guide to the Study of Religion, London-NY 2000 (Greek title: Εγχειρίδιο Θρησκειολογίας, Θεσσαλονίκη: Βάνιας).

• 2003. Russell McCutcheon, Manufacturing Religion, NY-Oxford 1997 (Greek title: Κατασκευάζοντας τη Θρησκεία, Θεσσαλονίκη: Βάνιας).