Jensine Andresen (ed.)

Religion in Mind

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9780521801522
• ISBN-10: 0521801524
• Artikelnr.: 21871931

Autorenporträt

Jensine Andresen is Assistant Professor of Theology at Boston University where she teaches in the Graduate Program in Science, Philosophy and Religion.

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.