Religion and cognition: a reader

by Slone, D. Jason

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

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

Notes

First published 2006 by Equinox, an imprint of Acumen.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (392 p.).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1844657442, 9781844657445, 1134941943, 9781134941940, 1134941870, 9781134941872
DOI:10.4324/9781315539423
oclc:on1303436440
LC Classification:BL53
Dewey Decimal:200.19

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 Anthr…