Title: Religion in Mind: Cognitive Perspectives On Religious Belief, Ritual, and Experience
Abstract:1. Introduction: towards a cognitive science of religion Jensine Andresen Part I. Belief Acquisition and the Spread of Religious Representations: 2. On what we may believe about beliefs Benson Saler 3...1. Introduction: towards a cognitive science of religion Jensine Andresen Part I. Belief Acquisition and the Spread of Religious Representations: 2. On what we may believe about beliefs Benson Saler 3. Cognition, emotion, and religious experience Ilkka Pyysiainen 4. Why gods? A cognitive theory Stewart Guthrie Part II. Questioning the 'Representation' of Religious Ritual Action: 5. Ritual, memory, and emotion: comparing two cognitive hypotheses Robert N. McCauley 6. Psychological perspectives on agency E. Thomas Lawson 7. Do children experience God like adults? Justin L. Barrett Part III. Embodied Models of Religion: 8. Cognitive study of religion and Husserlian phenomenology: making better tools for the analysis of cultural systems Matti Kamppinen 9. Why a proper science of mind implies the transcendence of nature Francisco J. Varela 10. Religion and the frontal lobes Patrick McNamara 11. Conclusion: religion in the flesh: forging new methodologies for the study of religion Jensine Andresen.Read More
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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