Religion in Mind: Cognitive Perspectives on Religious Belief, Ritual, and Experience - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521173183 ISBN 13: 9780521173186

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Religion in Mind is a 2001 text which summarizes and extends the advances in the cognitive study of religion throughout the 1990s. It uses empirical research from psychology and anthropology to illuminate various components of religious belief, ritual, and experience. The book examines cognitive dimensions of religion within a naturalistic view of culture, while respecting the phenomenology of religion and drawing together teachers of religion, psychologists of religion, and cognitive scientists. Expert contributors focus on phenomena such as belief-fixation and transmission; attributions of agency; anthropomorphizing; counterintuitive religious representations; the well-formedness of religious rituals; links between religious representations and emotions; and the development of god concepts. The work encourages greater interdisciplinary linkages between scholars from different fields and will be of interest to researchers in anthropology, psychology, sociology, history, philosophy, and cognitive science. It also will interest more general readers in religion and science.

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Paperback. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 308 Publisher: Camidge. University Press Religion in Mind is a 2001 text which Summarizes and extends the Advances in the cognitive study of religion throughout the 1990s. IT uses the S COMPETITIVENES research from psychology and anthropology to ILLUMINATE various components of religious belief. ritual. and experience. The book examines cognitive dimensions of religion within a naturalistic view of culture. while respecting the phenomenology of religion and drawing together teachers of religion. psychologists of religion. and cognitive scientists. Expert contributors focus on phenomena such as belief-fixation and transmission; attributions of agency; anthropomorphizing; counterintuitive religious representations; the well-formedness of religious rituals; links between religious representations and emotions; and the development of god concepts...

Book Description:

Originally published in 2001, Religion in Mind summarizes and extends the advances in the cognitive study of religion throughout the 1990s. It will be of interest to researchers in anthropology, psychology, sociology, history, philosophy, and cognitive science and also to the general reader interested in religion and science.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521173183
• ISBN 13: 9780521173186
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308
• Editor: Andresen Jensine