Religion explained? the cognitive science of religion after twenty-five years /: the cognitive science of religion after twenty-five years. (2017)
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- Title:
- Religion explained? the cognitive science of religion after twenty-five years /: the cognitive science of religion after twenty-five years. (2017)
- Main Title:
- Religion explained? the cognitive science of religion after twenty-five years
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe.
- Other Names:
- Martin, Luther H
Wiebe, Donald, 1943- - Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustration; Contributors; Introduction: Religion Explained? The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years; Part One Retrospectives; 1 The Cognitive Science of Religion and the Growth of Knowledge; 2 Twenty-Five Years In: Landmark Empirical Findings in the Cognitive Science of Religion*; Explanatory pluralism; Avoiding the quandaries of interpretive exclusivism; The development of CSR as a scientific enterprise with new experimental findings generating theories from the bottom-up; Three effects; Theological incorrectness Promiscuous teleologyDead agents' minds; Minimally counterintuitive religious representations; New directions; Evolutionary theorizing; Cognitive neuroscience; Religious experience; Afterword; 3 Twenty-Five Years of CSR: A Personal Retrospective; A little more than twenty-five years ago; The early nineties; Ritual and causal opacity; Ritual as social glue; Quantifying ritual; From fusion to fanaticism; Summing up; Acknowledgments; 4 The Beautiful Butterfly: On the History of and Prospects for the Cognitive Science of Religion; Where did we come from?; What is cognition? What have we achieved so far?Then what happened?; Meeting psychology and doing experiments (good and bad things about it); Experimental psychology studies: Standard paradigms; Religion-by-proxy studies; Authentic religion studies; A guide for CSR scholars and adversaries; What's next? Multidisciplinary integration;Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustration; Contributors; Introduction: Religion Explained? The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years; Part One Retrospectives; 1 The Cognitive Science of Religion and the Growth of Knowledge; 2 Twenty-Five Years In: Landmark Empirical Findings in the Cognitive Science of Religion*; Explanatory pluralism; Avoiding the quandaries of interpretive exclusivism; The development of CSR as a scientific enterprise with new experimental findings generating theories from the bottom-up; Three effects; Theological incorrectness Promiscuous teleologyDead agents' minds; Minimally counterintuitive religious representations; New directions; Evolutionary theorizing; Cognitive neuroscience; Religious experience; Afterword; 3 Twenty-Five Years of CSR: A Personal Retrospective; A little more than twenty-five years ago; The early nineties; Ritual and causal opacity; Ritual as social glue; Quantifying ritual; From fusion to fanaticism; Summing up; Acknowledgments; 4 The Beautiful Butterfly: On the History of and Prospects for the Cognitive Science of Religion; Where did we come from?; What is cognition? What have we achieved so far?Then what happened?; Meeting psychology and doing experiments (good and bad things about it); Experimental psychology studies: Standard paradigms; Religion-by-proxy studies; Authentic religion studies; A guide for CSR scholars and adversaries; What's next? Multidisciplinary integration; Conclusion; Part Two State of the Art; 5 Religion Explained? Some Variants of Cognitive Theory; Introduction; Current theory; A cognitive theory revisited; Summary and conclusion; 6 Cognitive Attractors in the Evolution and Diffusion of Religious Representations The standard cognitive model: Religious representationsNo such thing as Religion; The next frontier: Attractors and diffusion; An example: Life-history and moralizing doctrines; Different attractors and strategies; 7 The Long Way from Cognitive Science to History: To Shorten the Distance and Fill in the Blanks*; Introduction; History, cognition, and culture; History as a cognitive enterprise; Conclusion; 8 The Indispensability of Cognitive Science for a Genuine History of Religion; History of religion as vertical anthropology; Why resuscitate terms like "magic" and "ritual efficaciousness"? Accounting for magic from a cognitive science perspectiveThe indispensability of cognitive science for a history of religion worth its name; Part Three CSR 2.0; 9 Exiting the Motel of the Mysteries? How Historiographical Floccinaucinihilipilification Is Affecting CSR 2.0; Introduction; What is CSR 2.0?; The misunderstanding of presentism; Unbiased hypothesis-driven research?; The past, mathematically speaking; If it's not dressed in a lab coat, it's not science. Or, is it?; Conclusion: My map is (not quite exactly) your territory; Acknowledgments … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (272 p.), ill
- Subjects:
- 200.72
Religion & science
RELIGION / Comparative Religion
RELIGION / Essays
RELIGION / Reference
Cognitive science
Science -- Cognitive Science
Religion -- Psychology of Religion
Religion
Cognitive science
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 1350032476
9781350032477
9781350032484
1350032484 - Related ISBNs:
- 1350032468
1350032484 - Notes:
- Note: Description based on print version record.
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