Religion in Mind - Cognitive Perspectives on Religious Belief, Ritual, and Experience (Paperback)

Religion in Mind is a 2001 text which summarizes and extends the advances in the cognitive study of religion throughout the 1990s. It uses empirical research from psychology and anthropology to illuminate various components of religious belief, ritual, and experience. The book examines cognitive dimensions of religion within a naturalistic view of culture, while respecting the phenomenology of religion and drawing together teachers of religion, psychologists of religion, and cognitive scientists. Expert contributors focus on phenomena such as belief-fixation and transmission; attributions of agency; anthropomorphizing; counterintuitive religious representations; the well-formedness of religious rituals; links between religious representations and emotions; and the development of god concepts. The work encourages greater interdisciplinary linkages between scholars from different fields and will be of interest to researchers in anthropology, psychology, sociology, history, philosophy, and cognitive science. It also will interest more general readers in religion and science.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2011
First published:	2011
Editors:	Jensine Andresen
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	308
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-17318-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Cognitive theory Books > Religion & Spirituality > General
LSN:	0-521-17318-3
Barcode:	9780521173186

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