TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andresen,Jensine
TI  - Religion in mind: cognitive perspectives on religious belief, ritual, and experience 
SN  - 0521801524
AV  - BL48 .R424 2001
U1  - 153 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Religion
KW  - Cognitive psychology
KW  - Cognitive science
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: towards a cognitive science of religion . Jensine Andresen -- Part I: Belief acquisition and the spread of religious representations. On what we may believe about beliefs / Benson Saler -- Cognition, emotion, and religious experience / Ilkka Pyysiäinen -- Why gods? A cognitive theory / Stewart Guthrie -- Part II: Questioning the "representations" of religious ritual action. Ritual, memory, and emotion: comparing two cognitive hypotheses / Robert N. McCauley -- Psychological perspectives on agency / E. Thomas Lawson -- Do children experience God as adults do? / Justin L. Barrett -- Part III: Embodied models of religion. Cognitive study of religion and Husserlian phenomenology: making better tools for the analysis of cultural systems / Matti Kamppinen -- Why a proper science of mind implies the transcendence of nature / Francisco J. Varela -- Religion and the frontal lobes / Patrick McNamara -- Conclusion: religion in the flesh: forging new methodologies for the study of religion / Jensine Andresen
ER  -