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Cognitive Science of Religion

Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, 2012
This article presents an introduction to the cognitive science of religion. It shows that CSR began with original theoretical approaches within the human sciences and has subsequently developed into a more empirical, interdisciplinary field of study. The field is growing rapidly with the appearance of several centers and projects.
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How Cognitive Is the Cognitive Science of Religion?

Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, 2022
In this commentary on An Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion by Claire White, I reflect on how the lack of clarification of a key concept, i.e., cognition, leads to a distorted image of the field. This is because different strands of research can now be represented in a cognitivist context.
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The Cognitive Science of Religion

Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 2004
Cognitive scientists seek to explain the kinds of perceptual and con ceptual representations—including "religious" representations—which the mental processing of sensory input allows, the memory, transmis sion, and transformations of these mental representations, and the rela tionships, historical and potential, among them. Although a cognitive science
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Intellectualism versus Cognitive Science of Religion

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
This is an analytical study into how the new cognitive science of religion (CSR) relates to the classical but now lowly regarded "intellectualist" view of religion, according to which supernatural-agent concepts serve to explain the world. Could CSR be merely old intellectualist wine in new bottles? No, the central idea of the "standard model" of CSR, "
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Philosophy in the Cognitive Science of Religion

Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, 2016
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TOWARDS A COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF RELIGION

Numen, 2000
L'A. presente une theorie des religions qui veut remplacer les approches sociologique et hermeneutique anterieures par une nouvelle approche explicative. De meme que les linguistes concoivent le langage comme la capacite a parler, l'A. envisage la religion comme une ressource cognitive.
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Cognitive Science of Imagination and Religion

Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, 2020
Religion and imagination both deal with what is beyond theempirical here and now. In this article, I will argue that imaginationas a capacity is highly important for the development, maintenance,and evolution of religion and the variety of componentsthat together make a religion: (Religious) belief, religious cognitionbroadly, religious events such as ...
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The Roots of Religion: Exploring the Cognitive Science of Religion

Journal of Contemporary Religion, 2015
What are the origins of religious belief? Why is there any religion at all? What is the relationship between religion and human nature?
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Philosophical Foundations of Cognitive Science of Religion

2022
Abstract The cognitive science of religion is not a single theory but a loosely related family of approaches. As such, it does not have a clearly outlined “philosophical foundation” and does not necessarily require one. Nevertheless, recurring themes that could be labeled philosophical or methodological are often discussed in the ...
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Arguing from Cognitive Science of Religion

2020
This book considers whether recent theories from Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) undermine the epistemic status of religious belief. After introducing the key theories in the growing area of CSR, Hans Van Eyghen explores some of the epistemic questions surrounding CSR, including: Is CSR incompatible with the truth of religious belief? How might CSR
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