Rethinking Religion - Connecting Cognition and Culture (Paperback)

This book develops a cognitive approach to religion. Focusing particularly on ritual action, it borrows analytical methods from linguistics and other cognitive sciences. The authors provide a lucid, critical review of established approaches to the study of religion, and make a strong plea for the combination of interpretation and explanation. Often represented as competitive approaches, they are, rather, complementary and equally vital to the study of symbolic systems. Rethinking Religion deals with the relationship between cognition and culture in a novel manner, and introduces a method of analysis that will have many applications.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	1993
First published:	1990
Authors:	E. Thomas Lawson • Robert N. McCauley
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-43806-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	0-521-43806-3
Barcode:	9780521438063

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