Religion in Mind

Cognitive Perspectives on Religious Belief, Ritual, and Experience
Herausgeber: Andresen, Jensine; Jensine, Andresen

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 2001, Religion in Mind summarizes and extends the advances in the cognitive study of religion throughout the 1990s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9780521173186
• ISBN-10: 0521173183
• Artikelnr.: 31386834

Inhaltsangabe

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 Pyysiäinen; 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.