Lionel Tiger

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Lionel Tiger (* 1937 in Montreal , Canada ) is an American anthropologist . He teaches at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA .

Tiger was born to a Jewish family in Catholic French-Canadian Québec . At McGill University he graduated in 1957 with a Bachelor and 1959 with a Master of Arts . The promotion to Ph.D. took place in 1962 at the London School of Economics . Tiger was Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia (1963-69) and at Rutgers University (1969-72), since then he has taught there as a professor .

Tiger is considered to be the inventor of the term male bonding , which he explains in his work Men in Groups : He showed that friendship in the sense of camaraderie develops when men have the same interests.

In God's Brain he tries to explain the phenomenon of religiosity : 80 percent of humanity see themselves as religious today, so the 19th century thesis that religion is doomed to disappear is wrong. Religion fulfills a purpose in the life of the individual, namely to heal his brain pain , which arises from the fact that his brain is underutilized. Religion as the execution of rituals, with the experience of community or music calm and stabilize religious people ( brainsoothing ).

Works (selection)

  • Men in Groups (1969), German Why men really rule , BLV, Munich; Bern; Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-405-10978-7 .
  • The Imperial Animal (with Robin Fox, 1971), German Das Herrentier. Stone Age hunters in late capitalism , Bertelsmann, Munich; Gütersloh; Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-570-04599-4 .
  • The Decline of Males (1999), German discontinued model man. The new roles of women and men in modern society , Deuticke, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-216-30520-1 .
  • God's Brain (with Michael McGuire), Prometheus, Amherst 2010, ISBN 978-1-61614-164-6 (not yet published in German).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Markus Somm, God is a hormone (book review), Welt am Sonntag, July 11, 2010, p. 58
personal data
SURNAME Tiger, Lionel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal