Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-10586-7 (ISBN)
The essays collected in this volume are those that initially defined this scientific field for the study of religion. These essays deal with issues of methodology, reductionism, resistance to the scientific study of religion, and other criticisms that have been lodged against the cognitive science of religion. The new final chapter sees McCauley reflect on developments in this field since its founding.
Tackling these debates head on and in one place for the first time, this volume belongs on the shelf of every researcher interested in this now established approach to the study of religion within a range of disciplines, including religious studies, philosophy, anthropology and the psychology of religion.
Robert N. McCauley is William Rand Kenan Jr. University Professor of Philosophy, as well as Associated Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Anthropology, in the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture, at Emory University, USA. E. Thomas Lawson is Honorary Professor and Research Scientist at the Institute of Cognition and Culture at the School of History and Anthropology, Queen’s University-Belfast, Northern Ireland, as well as Professor Emeritus of the Department for Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University, USA.
List of Figures
Preface
1. Explanatory Pluralism and the Cognitive Science of Religion: Or Why Scholars in Religious Studies Should Stop Worrying about Reductionism
2. Interpretation and Explanation: Problems and Promise in the Study of Religion (with E. Thomas Lawson)
3. Crisis of Conscience, Riddle of Identity: Making Space for a Cognitive Approach to Religious Phenomena (with E. Thomas Lawson)
4. Who Owns ‘Culture’? (with E. Thomas Lawson)
5. Overcoming Barriers to a Cognitive Psychology of Religion
6. Twenty-Five Years In: Landmark Empirical Findings in the Cognitive Science of Religion
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 23.03.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation |
Co-Autor | E. Thomas Lawson |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 277 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-10586-4 / 1350105864 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-10586-7 / 9781350105867 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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