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基本説明
The cognitive science of religion is a new field that has emerged within Religious Studies in the past two decades. In this volume, the world's leading experts present an up-to-date introduction to problems, theories and recent findings in this branch of inquiry.
Full Description
This cognitive study of religion challenges not only various supernatural views of religion but also the view that psychological theories are irrelevant for the understanding of religion as a cultural system. It is the interplay between the "cultural" and the "cognitive" that creates religion as a phenomenon. Among the issues discussed are ritual, god beliefs, animism, magic, the origins of religion and "religion" as a category, as well as the theoretical foundations of the cognitive study of religion.
Contents
Pascal Boyer - why do gods and spirits matter at all? supernatural gadgets and social mind adaptations; Ilkka Pyysiainen - religion and the counter-intuitive; Justin L. Barrett - dumb gods, petitionary prayer, and the cognitive science of religion; Stewart Guthrie - animal animism: evolutionary roots of religious cognition; Pertti Saariluoma - does classification explicate the contents of concepts?; E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley - cognitive constraints on religious ritual form - a theory of participants' competence with religious systems; Harvey Whitehouse - implicit and explicit knowledge in the domain of ritual; Jeppe Sinding Jensen - the complex worlds of religion - connecting cultural and cognitive analysis; Veikko Anttonen - identifying the generative mechanisms of religion - the issue of origin revisited; Jesper Sorensen - "the morphology and function of magic" revisited; Matti Kamppinen - explaining religion - cognitive and evolutionary mechanisms.
