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Why religion is natural and science is not / Robert N. McCauley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCauley, Robert N.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and science.
- Psychology, Religious.
- Cognition and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The battle between religion and science, competing methods of knowing ourselves and our world, has been raging for many centuries. Now scientists themselves are looking at cognitive foundations of religion--and arriving at some surprising conclusions. Over the course of the past two decades, scholars have employed insights gleaned from cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and related disciplines to illuminate the study of religion. In Why Religion is Natural and Science Is Not, Robert N. McCauley, one of the founding fathers of the cognitive science of religion, argues that our minds are b
- Contents:
- Natural cognition
- Maturational naturalness
- Unnatural science
- Natural religion
- Surprising consequences.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-991230-0
- 1-283-29702-7
- 9786613297020
- 0-19-982727-3
- OCLC:
- 756484824
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