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Recent work in the cognitive science of religion has challenged some of the explanatory assumptions of previous research in the field. Nonetheless, some of the practitioners of the new cognitive science of religion theorize in the same skeptical spirit ...
Walter Scott Stepanenko
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THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF RELIGION: IMPLICATIONS FOR THEISM?
. 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 ...
Aku Olavi Visala
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The 3rd Generation of Science-Religion Theories: New Prospects for the Interactive Approach [PDF]
The science-religion relationship has been investigated more systematically since the middle of the 20th century. Many theories of different kinds were suggested in order to figure out this relation via analyzing the content and history of science and ...
Zahra Zargar
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Cognitive Science and the Naturalness of Religion [PDF]
Abstract Cognitive approaches to religious phenomena have attracted considerable interdisciplinary attention since their emergence a couple of decades ago. Proponents offer explanatory accounts of the content and transmission of religious thought and behavior in terms of underlying cognition. A central claim is that the cross‐cultural
McCauley, R., Cohen, E.
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The Brahmin, the Aryan, and the powers of the priestly class : puzzles in the study of Indian religion [PDF]
The classical account of the Brahmin priestly class and its role in Indian religion has seen remarkable continuity during the past two centuries. Its core claims appear to remain unaffected, despite the major shifts that occurred in the theorizing of ...
De Roover, Jakob, Keppens, Marianne
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Durkheimian anthropology and religion: going in and out of each other’s bodies [PDF]
This is a reprint of Bloch, Maurice. 2007. “Durkheimian anthropology and religion: Going in and out of each other's bodies.” In Religion, anthropology, and cognitive science, edited by Harvey Whitehouse and James Laidlaw, 63–88.
Bloch, Maurice
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Teološka antropologija pred izazovom (evolutivne) kognitivne znanosti o religiji
In the article the authors provide insights into the basic determinants of relatively young scientific disciplines – the cognitive science of religion and the evolutionary cognitive science of religion, which have become inevitable in attempting to ...
Saša Horvat, Richard Pavlić
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Preface: Research Approaches to the Study of Religion
First of all we pay attention to cognitive studies of religion and compare theology and philosophy of religion.
Oviedo Lluis
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Book Review “Religion Explained? The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years”
I review the book “Religion Explained? The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years.” I discuss all the papers in the book and highlight some recurrent issues.
Van Eyghen Hans
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Behind, Between, and Beyond Anthropomorphic Models [PDF]
The plurality of models of ultimate reality is a central problem for religious philosophy. This essay sketches what is involved in mounting comparative inquiries across the plurality of models.
Wildman, Wesley J.
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