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Religion in mind : cognitive perspectives on religious belief, ritual, and experience / edited by Jensine Andresen
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001Description: xi, 294 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0521801524
- 153 21
- BL48 .R424 2001
Contents:
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
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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
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