Religion in Mind: Cognitive Perspectives on Religious Belief, Ritual, and Experience
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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.
Book Details
ISBN-13: 9780521801522
EAN: 9780521801522
Publisher Date: 02 Mar 2005
Bood Data Readership Text: Professional & Vocational
Dewey: 153
Height: 228 mm
Language: English
MediaMail: Y
Number of Items: 01
PrintOnDemand: N
Series Title: English
UK Availability: GXC
Year Of Publication: 2001
ISBN-10: 0521801524
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding: Hardcover
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Gardner Classification Code: R00
Illustrations: 3 b/w illus.
LCCN: 00045522
No of Pages: 308
Pagination: 308 pages, 3 b/w illus.
Returnable: N
Spine Width: 19 mm
Width: 152 mm