Religion and cognition : a reader / edited by D. Jason Slone.

Other author Slone, D. Jason.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2006.
Descriptionx, 362 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

SeriesCritical categories in the study of religion
Critical categories in the study of religion. ^A716547
Contents Interpretation and explanation : problems and promise in the study of religion / E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley -- The epidemiology of beliefs : a naturalistic approach / Dan Sperber -- Toward a topography of mind : an introduction to domain specificity / Lawrence A. Hirschfeld and Susan A. Gelman -- Exploring the natural foundations of religion / Justin L. Barrett -- Are children "intuitive theists"? : reasoning about purpose and design in nature / Deborah Kelemen -- Conceptualizing a nonnatural entity : anthropomorphism in God concepts / Justin L. Barrett and Frank C. Keil -- Spreading non-natural concepts : the role of intuitive conceptual structures in memory and transmission in culture / Justin L. Barrett and Melanie A. Nyhof -- Cognitive templates for religious concepts : cross-cultural evidence for recall of counter-intuitive representations / Pascal Boyer and Charles Ramble -- Ritual intuitions : cognitive contributions to judgments of ritual efficacy / Justin L. Barrett and E. Thomas Lawson -- Cognitive and contextual factors in the emergence of diverse belief systems : creation versus evolution / E. Margaret Evans -- Children's attributions of beliefs to humans and God : cross-cultural evidence / Nicola Knight ... [et al.] -- The natural emergence of reasoning about the afterlife as a developmental regularity / Jesse Bering and David F. Bjorklund -- Modes of research : combining cognitive psychology and anthropology through Whitehouse's modes of religiosity / Rebekah A. Richert.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 2005037993
ISBN1904768709 (hbk.)
ISBN9781904768708 (hbk.)
ISBN1904768717 (pbk.)
ISBN9781904768715 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks BL53 .R433 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold