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Toward an embodied cognitive science of religion: enaction, evolution, emergence
Religion, Brain & BehaviorTo secure the scientific credibility of its theoretical foundations, CSR needs to update its cognitive model. Seminal work in CSR, and much contemporary research, employs a model of cognition that is subject to mounting criticism (i.e., cognitivism). The
J. Teehan
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Does Cognitive Science of Religion Undermine Religious Belief? [PDF]
Философия и космология, 2015 In this paper, I discuss what Cognitive Science of Religion is and what its implications are for theism and the veracity of religious belief. Findings in CSR, and its counterpart Evolutionary Psychology, aim to explain the origin of religious belief ...
Rezkalla Paul
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Religions, 2014 In recent decades, historians of religions have turned to, and developed, entirely new methodologies for the study of religion and human consciousness.
Glen Alexander Hayes
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DEFINING “RELIGION” AS NATURAL: A CRITICAL INVITATION TO ROBERT McCAULEY
Zygon, 2014 Previous critics have argued that Robert McCauley defines religion and science selectively and arbitrarily, cutting them to fit his model in Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not.
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Zygon, 2022 How do we come to know things, and how are such epistemological questions treated in the field of science and religion? Recent critiques of science and religion methodology argue for an anti‐essentialist approach to science and religion that ...
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Cognitive Science of Religion: What Is It and Why Is It?
Religion Compass, 2007 Abstract Cognitive science of religion (CSR) brings theories from the cognitive sciences to bear on why religious thought and action is so common in humans and why religious phenomena take on the features that they do. The field is characterized by a piecemeal approach, explanatory non‐exclusivism, and methodological pluralism. Topics
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THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF RELIGION: IMPLICATIONS FOR THEISM?
Zygon, 2011 . Although the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR), a current approach to the scientific study of religion, has exerted an influence in the study of religion for almost twenty years, the question of its compatibility or incompatibility with theism has ...
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COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF RELIGION AND FOLK THEISTIC BELIEF
Zygon, 2016 Cognitive scientists of religion promise to lay bare the cognitive mechanisms that generate religious beliefs in human beings. Defenders of the debunking argument believe that the cognitive mechanisms studied in this field pose a threat to folk theism ...
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Zygon, 2019 Many scholars often use the terms “metaphors,” “analogies,” and “models” interchangeably and inadvertently overlook the uniqueness of each word. According to recent cognitive studies, the three terms involve distinct cognitive processes using features ...
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