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Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2005 “On Religion and Cognition: A Brief Historical and Thematic Introduction”. This article is a brief introduction to the cognitive study of religion. Ten problems are identified which serve as the backdrop of the article.
Armin W. Geertz
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RELIGION IS EASY, BUT SCIENCE IS HARD … UNDERSTANDING McCAULEY'S THESIS
Zygon, 2014 Robert N. McCauley's new book Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not (2011) presents a new paradigm for investigating the relationship between science and religion by exploring the cognitive foundations of religious belief and scientific knowledge ...
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Science and human religiosity from the perspective of the cognitive science of religion
Analecta Cracoviensia, 2018 The cognitive science of religion is a developing subdiscipline of the cognitive sciences which aim at providing the natural explanation of religion by indicating mental tools responsible for the acceptance of religious beliefs.
Wojciech Grygiel
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Theism And Cognitive Science of Religion: Compatibility or Incompatibility [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2019 From the beginning of the 21st century, a new field of cognitive science called "cognitive science of religion" (CSR) has attracted the attention of many scholars.
Sayyed Mahdi Biabanaki
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Zygon, 2014 Although I certainly have differences with some of my commentators, I am grateful for the time, effort, and attention that each has devoted to my book, Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not.
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The cognitive science of religion: Implications for morality
Filosofia Unisinos, 2018 A cognitive scientific approach to religion reveals the moral role of religion in human evolutionary history and provides insight into the continuing influence of religion in human affairs.
John Teehan
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Davidsonian semantic theory and cognitive science of religion
Filosofia Unisinos, 2018 This article investigates the extent to which the cognitive science of religion (CSR) and Donald Davidson’s semantic holism (DSH) harmonize. We first characterize CSR, philosophical semantics (and more specifically DSH).
Mark Quentin Gardiner, Steven Engler
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CRITICAL REMARKS ON THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF RELIGION
Zygon, 2020 Cognitive explanations of religious beliefs propose an evolutionary past in which humans had to possess certain cognitive adaptations to survive.
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Religion as Orienting Worldview
Zygon, 2001 Religions are complex, and any attempt at defining religion necessarily falls short. Nevertheless, any scholarly inquiry into the nature of religion must use some criteria in order to evaluate and study the character of religious traditions across ...
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Cognitive Evolution and Religion; Cognition and Religious Evolution
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2008 This paper presents contemporary cognitive approaches to the evolution of religious beliefs. Arguments are put forward that different types of beliefs, or ‘modes of religiosity’, occur as a result of a number of evolutionary factors (biological, cultural,
Harvey Whitehouse
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