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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 The cognitive science of religion (CSR) is an emerging field of cognitive science that gathers insights from different disciplines to explain how humans acquire and transmit religious beliefs.
Sayyed M. Biabanaki
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DEBUNKING ARGUMENTS GAIN LITTLE FROM COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF RELIGION
Zygon, 2021 Cognitive science of religion (CSR) has inspired a number of debunking arguments against god‐belief. They aim to show that the belief‐forming processes that underlie belief in god(s) are unreliable.
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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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Reformed Epistemology and the Cognitive Science of Religion
Faith and Philosophy, 2010 Reformed epistemology and cognitive science have remarkably converged on belief in God. Reformed epistemology holds that belief in God is basic— that is, belief in God is a natural, non-inferential belief that is immediately produced by a cognitive faculty.
Clark, Kelly James, Barrett, Justin L.
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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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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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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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Issues concerning plaussiblity and empirical evidence in recent scientific study of religion
Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2017 Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) has developed for almost twenty years naturalistic explanations on religious mind and behavior, opening that field to scientific scrutiny.
Lluis Oviedo Torró, OFM
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