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SCIENCE AND RELIGION AS LANGUAGES: UNDERSTANDING THE SCIENCE–RELIGION RELATIONSHIP USING METAPHORS, ANALOGIES, AND MODELS

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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Pragmatism, Critical Realism, and the Cognitive Value of Religion and Science

Zygon, 1999
Pragmatism and critical realism are different vocabularies for talking about the cognitive value of religion and science. Each can be, and has been, used to make the case for cognitive parity between religious and scientific discourse.
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Reflections on the Cognitive Science of Religion

Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion
Welcome to volume 10.1–2 of the Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion! In looking back at the first ten volumes of this journal, one is struck by the excitement and diversity of this ever-growing research field.
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Should Theologians Answer the Question "Is Religion Natural?": Panel Contribution on the 2024 Boyle Lecture

Zygon
In his 2024 Boyle Lecture, David Fergusson takes up the question “is religion natural?” In response, this panel contribution provides four reasons why theologians should be hesitant to offer answers to this question.
Joanna Leidenhag
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Cognitive and Evolutionary Inspirations in the Study of Religion with Emphasis on the Development of Ethnology and Sociocultural Anthropology in Slovakia

Svetovi
The cognitive and evolutionary approach to the research of religion in cultural and social anthropology has been systematically developing since the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century.
Michal Uhrin
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Research Approaches in the Study of Religion

Studia Humana, 2015
Despite development of secular ideas and concepts in the Western world, we can observe increasing interest in the study of religion. However, this popularity of the study of religion and different research approaches has caused that in some sense ...
Szocik Konrad
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Vital Energy and Afterlife: Implications for Cognitive Science of Religion

Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto), 2015
Literature investigating people’s concepts of supernatural agency (such as ghosts and deities) points to an intuitive theory of mind underlying such ideas, however, recent studies suggest that intuitive ideas over vital energy could also be involved. The
Maira Monteiro Roazzi, Carl N. Johnson, Melanie Nyhof, Silvia Helena Koller, Antonio Roazzi   +4 more
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CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES, AND SUGGESTIONS FOR A RENEWED PROGRAM IN THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION

Zygon, 2020
This is an introduction to the Symposium on “The New Scientific Study of Religion Moving On.” The introduction briefly indicates why the cognitive science of religion (CSR) needs re‐evaluation.
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Rationality in science and religion: interval-continual approach

Антиномии, 2018
The issue of hierarchical organization of cognitive practices – revealed by postmodernist critics – still influences on the interaction between science and religion.
Nikolay A. Tarabanov, Evgeniya S. Gizbrekht   +1 more
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WHAT EPISTEMIC VALUES SHOULD WE RECLAIM FOR RELIGION AND SCIENCE? A RESPONSE TO J. WESLEY ROBBINS

Zygon, 1993
. Postmodernism in science rejects and deconstructs the cultural dominance of especially the natural sciences in our time. Although it presents the debate between religion and science with a promising epistemological holism, it also seriously challenges
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