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Religion Explained
Av Pascal Boyer
Häftad, 2002
187 kr
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Why are there religious beliefs in all cultures? Do they have features in common and why does religion persist in the face of science? Pascal Boyer shows how experimental findings in cognitive science, evolutionary biology and cultural anthropology are now providing precise answers to these general …
Minds Make Societies
How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
Av Pascal Boyer
Häftad, 2020
180 kr
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A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies“There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success …
Religion Explained
The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
Av Pascal Boyer
Häftad, 2002
258 kr
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Many of our questions about religion, says renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, are no longer mysteries. We are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" Using findings from anthropology, cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary biology, Religion …
Naturalness of Religious Ideas
A Cognitive Theory of Religion
Av Pascal Boyer
Inbunden, 1994
824 kr
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Why do people have religious ideas? And why thosereligious ideas? The main theme of Pascal Boyer's work is that important aspects of religious representations are constrained by universal properties of the human mind-brain. Experimental results from developmental psychology, he says, can explain …
Naturalness of Religious Ideas
A Cognitive Theory of Religion
Av Pascal Boyer
E-bok, 1994
1005 kr
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Why do people have religious ideas? And why those religious ideas? The main theme of Pascal Boyer''s work is that important aspects of religious representations are constrained by universal properties of the human mind-brain. Experimental results from developmental psychology, he says, can explain …
Tradition as Truth and Communication
A Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse
Av Pascal Boyer, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
634 kr
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Tradition is a central concept in the social sciences, but it is commonly treated as unproblematic. Dr Boyer insists that social anthropology requires a theory of tradition, its constitution and transmission. He treats tradition 'as a type of interaction which results in the repetition which …
Tradition as Truth and Communication
A Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse
Inbunden, 1990
1563 kr
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Tradition is a central concept in the social sciences, but it is commonly treated as unproblematic. Dr Boyer insists that social anthropology requires a theory of tradition, its constitution and transmission. He treats tradition 'as a type of interaction which results in the repetition which …
Cognitive Aspects of Religious Symbolism
Häftad, 2008
549 kr
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How are religious ideas presented, acquired and transmitted? Confronted with religious practices, anthropologists have typically been content with sociological generalizations, informed by vague, intuitive models of cognitive processes. Yet the modern cognitive theories promise a fresh …
Memory in Mind and Culture
Av Pascal Boyer, James V. Wertsch
Häftad, 2009
681 kr
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This text introduces students, scholars, and interested educated readers to the issues of human memory broadly considered, encompassing both individual memory, collective remembering by societies, and the construction of history. The book is organised around several major questions: How do memories …
Memory in Mind and Culture
Av Pascal Boyer, James V. Wertsch
Inbunden, 2009
1661 kr
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This text introduces students, scholars, and interested educated readers to the issues of human memory broadly considered, encompassing both individual memory, collective remembering by societies, and the construction of history. The book is organised around several major questions: How do memories …
Religion Explained
Av Pascal Boyer
E-bok, 2008
147 kr
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Why are there religious beliefs in all cultures? Do they have features in common and why does religion persist in the face of science? Pascal Boyer shows how experimental findings in cognitive science, evolutionary biology and cultural anthropology are now providing precise answers to these general …
Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens
Essays in Evolutionary Cognitive Anthropology
Av Pascal Boyer
Häftad, 2021
413 kr
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Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens
Essays in Evolutionary Cognitive Anthropology
Av Pascal Boyer
Inbunden, 2021
596 kr
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Fracture Of An Illusion
Science And The Dissolution Of Religion
Av Pascal Boyer, Michael G. Parker m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
726 kr
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Pascal Boyer pursues an individual approach by connecting the perspective of evolutionary cognitive science with religious thought and behavior.
