An Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion write by Claire White. This book was released on 2021-03-14. An Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent decades, a new scientific approach to understand, explain, and predict many features of religion has emerged. The cognitive science of religion (CSR) has amassed research on the forces that shape the tendency for humans to be religious and on what forms belief takes. It suggests that religion, like language or music, naturally emerges in humans with tractable similarities. This new approach has profound implications for how we understand religion, including why it appears so easily, and why people are willing to fight—and die—for it. Yet it is not without its critics, and some fear that scholars are explaining the ineffable mystery of religion away, or showing that religion is natural proves or disproves the existence of God. An Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion offers students and general readers an accessible introduction to the approach, providing an overview of key findings and the debates that shape it. The volume includes a glossary of key terms, and each chapter includes suggestions for further thought and further reading as well as chapter summaries highlighting key points. This book is an indispensable resource for introductory courses on religion and a much-needed option for advanced courses.
The Cognitive Science of Religion
The Cognitive Science of Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cognitive Science of Religion write by D. Jason Slone. This book was released on 2019-01-10. The Cognitive Science of Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Cognitive Science of Religion introduces students to key empirical studies conducted over the past 25 years in this new and rapidly expanding field. In these studies, cognitive scientists of religion have applied the theories, findings and research tools of the cognitive sciences to understanding religious thought, behaviour and social dynamics. Each chapter is written by a leading international scholar, and summarizes in non-technical language the original empirical study conducted by the scholar. No prior or statistical knowledge is presumed, and studies included range from the classic to the more recent and innovative cases. Students will learn about the theories that cognitive scientists have employed to explain recurrent features of religiosity across cultures and historical eras, how scholars have tested those theories, and what the results of those tests have revealed and suggest. Written to be accessible to undergraduates, this provides a much-needed survey of empirical studies in the cognitive science of religion.
How Religion Works
How Religion Works - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Religion Works write by Ilkka Pyysiäinen. This book was released on 2021-10-11. How Religion Works available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent findings in cognitive science and evolutionary psychology provide important insights to the processes which make religious beliefs and behaviors such efficient attractors in and across various cultural settings. The specific salience of religious ideas is based on the fact that they are 'counter-intuitive': they contradict our intuitive expectations of how entities normally behave. Counter-intuitive ideas are only produced by a mind capable of crossing the boundaries that separate such ontological domains as persons, living things, and solid objects. The evolution of such a mind has only taken place in the human species. How certain kinds of counter-intuitive ideas are selected for a religious use is discussed from varying angles. Cognitive considerations are thus related to the traditions of comparative religion. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not
Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not write by Robert N. McCauley. This book was released on 2013-11. Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comparison of the cognitive foundations of religion and science and an argument that religion is cognitively natural and that science is cognitively unnatural.
Religion Explained
Religion Explained - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion Explained write by Pascal Boyer. This book was released on 2007-03-21. Religion Explained available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many of our questions about religion, says the internationally renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, were once mysteries, but they no longer are: we are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" and "Why is religion the way it is?" Using findings from anthropology, cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary biology, Boyer shows how one of the most fascinating aspects of human consciousness is increasingly admissible to coherent, naturalistic explanation. And Man Creates God tells readers, for the first time, what religious feeling is really about, what it consists of, and how it originates. It is a beautifully written, very accessible book by an anthropologist who is highly respected on both sides of the Atlantic. As a scientific explanation for religious feeling, it is sure to arouse controversy.
