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Growing belief: Developmental insights into the cognitive science of religion

Commentary.White et al. (2025) provide a comprehensive overview of 30 years of research in the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) and offer insights on the field’s future directions.
Wen, NJ, Legare, C
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Studying the Religious Mind:Methodology in the Cognitive Science of Religion

, 2022
The cognitive science of religion does not have its own methodology, and yet from the very beginnings of the discipline, methodology has defined it not only in relation to the general study of religion in the humanities but also to the sciences ...
Nielbo, Kristoffer Laigaard, Xygalatas, Dimitris, Eidinow, Esther, Martin, Luther H., Ambasciano, Leonardo, Roubekas, Nickolas P., van Mulukom, Valerie   +6 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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The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in the Dilemma of Abandoning or Reconstructing Faith

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This article explores the role of cognitive dissonance in the process of religious conversion. Cognitive dissonance occurs when a person's beliefs, values, or actions do not match and cause discomfort (Festinger, 1957).
Merve Armagan Bogatekin, Ali Osman Tezcan   +1 more
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THE DUALISTIC, DISCARNATE PICTURE THAT HAUNTS THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF RELIGION

Zygon, 2015
A dualistic, discarnate picture haunts contemporary cognitive science of religion (CSR). Cognitive scientists of religion generally assert or assume a reductive physicalism, primarily through unconscious mental mechanisms that detect supernatural agency
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Can Cognitive Science of Religion Explain Religion Away? [PDF]

, 2016
Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) explains the origin, transmission, and nature of religious beliefs by means of cognitive mechanisms. It seems that this approach avoids some important contexts of religious beliefs and does not explain the role that ...
Szocik, Konrad
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Science and religion: an introduction for youth - book summary

, 2019
This book is a short, simplified version of Science and Religion: A Critical Survey, at http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37691, appropriate for youth.This is an introduction to science and religion for youth, grades 9-12.
Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author, Elm Hill Books, publisher   +1 more
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Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living, by Dimitris Xygalatas

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Dimitris Xygalatas is an anthropologist and cognitive scientist interested in religion, ritual, music, and sports fanship among other topics. Xygalatas’s book Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living (Profile Books, 2022; henceforth ...
Michal Uhrin
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

Official publication of the American Academy of Religion.Special thematic issues published under titles: Journal of the American Academy of Religion.
American Academy of Religion.
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Science and Religion: Controverse or Complementarity [PDF]

, 2009
Science and Religion: controverse or complementarity Relations between science and religion since times of Galileo, Newton and Leibniz discussed .
Zeps, Dainis
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