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Evolution, religion and cognitive science : critical and constructive essays / Fraser Watts.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Watts, Fraser N., author.
- Conference Name:
- Darwin Festival (2009 : University of Cambridge)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychology, Religious.
- Evolutionary psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (263 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An increasingly influential area of research in the field of cognitive science of religion is concerned specifically with exploring the relationship between the evolution of the human mind, the evolution of culture in general, and the origins and subsequent development of religion. This research has lately exerted a strong influence on many areas of religious studies but, for some, the so-called 'evolutionary cognitive science of religion' remains a deeply problematic enterprise. This book's primary aim is to engage critically and constructively with this complex and diverse body of research from a wide range of perspectives.
- Contents:
- Cover; Evolution, Religion, and Cognitive Science; Copyright; Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction: Pluralism and Complexity in the Evolutionary Cognitive Science of Religion; 2 The Cognitive Science of Religion; 3 Biologically Evolutionary Explanations of Religious Belief; 4 The Evolution of Divine and Human Minds: Evolutionary Psychology, the Cognitive Study of Religion and Theism; 5 Extending Evolutionary Accounts of Religion beyond the Mind: Religions as Adaptive Systems; 6 Skilful Engagement and the 'Effort after Value': An Axiological Theory of the Origins of Religion
- 7 Religion and the Emergence of Differentiated Cognition8 From Empathy to Embodied Faith?; 9 Neither Friends nor Enemies: The Complex Relationship between Cognitive and Humanistic Accounts of Religious Belief; 10 The Cognitive Science of Religion from an Anthropological Perspective; 11 Religion: The Dynamics of Cultural Adaptations; 12 Artificial Intelligence Models of Religious Evolution; 13 Concluding Reflections; Subject Index; Author Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-151244-3
- OCLC:
- 874852098
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