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How Religion Works: Towards a New Cognitive Science of Religion - Couverture rigide

Pyysiäinen, Ilkka

 
9789004123199: How Religion Works: Towards a New Cognitive Science of Religion
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9004123199 ISBN 13 : 9789004123199
Editeur : Brill, 2001

Synopsis

Recent findings in cognitive science and evolutionary psychology provide important insights to the processes which make religious beliefs and behaviors such efficient attractors in and across various cultural settings. The specific salience of religious ideas is based on the fact that they are 'counter-intuitive': they contradict our intuitive expectations of how entities normally behave.
Counter-intuitive ideas are only produced by a mind capable of crossing the boundaries that separate such ontological domains as persons, living things, and solid objects. The evolution of such a mind has only taken place in the human species.
How certain kinds of counter-intuitive ideas are selected for a religious use is discussed from varying angles. Cognitive considerations are thus related to the traditions of comparative religion.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ilkka Pyysiäinen, Ph.D. (1993), University of Helsinki, is Academy Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland. He has published numerous articles and edited the volume Current Approaches in the Cognitive Study of Religion (Continuum, 2002).

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004123199
ISBN 13 
9789004123199
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
284
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Personne responsable
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