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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798226803321

Titolo

Religion and cognition : a reader / / edited by D. Jason Slone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-84465-744-2

1-315-53942-X

1-134-94194-3

1-134-94187-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Collana

Critical categories in the study of religion

Altri autori (Persone)

SloneD. Jason

Disciplina

200.19

Soggetti

Psychology, Religious

Cognition and culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2006 by Equinox, an imprint of Acumen.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Religion and Cognition: An Introduction; PART I; 1 Interpretation and Explanation: Problems and Promise in the Study of Religion; 2 The Epidemiology of Beliefs: A Naturalistic Approach; 3 Toward a Topography of Mind: An Introduction to Domain Specificity; 4 Exploring the Natural Foundations of Religion; 5 Are Children ""Intuitive Theists""? Reasoning about Purpose and Design in Nature; PART II; 6 Conceptualizing a Nonnatural Entity: Anthropomorphism in God Concepts

7 Spreading Non-natural Concepts: The Role of Intuitive Conceptual Structures in Memory and Transmission in Culture8 Cognitive Templates for Religious Concepts: Cross-Cultural Evidence for Recall of Counter-Intuitive Representations; 9 Ritual Intuitions: Cognitive Contributions to Judgments of Ritual Efficacy; 10 Cognitive and Contextual Factors in the Emergence of Diverse Belief Systems: Creation versus Evolution; 11 Children's Attributions of Beliefs to Humans and God: Cross-cultural Evidence; 12 The Natural Emergence of Reasoning about the Afterlife as a Developmental Regularity

13 Modes of Research: Combining Cognitive Psychology and Anthropology through Whitehouse's Modes of ReligiosityIndex of



Authors; Index of Subjects