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Death Anxiety and Religious Belief
An Existential Psychology of Religion
Av Jonathan Jong, Jamin Halberstadt m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
514 kr
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There are no atheists in foxholes; or so we hear. The thought that the fear of death motivates religious belief has been around since the earliest speculations about the origins of religion. There are hints of this idea in the ancient world, but the theory achieves prominence in the works of …
Social Cognition Perspective of the Psychology of Religion
“Why God Thinks Like You"
Häftad, 2025
415 kr
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An exploration of how psychological mechanisms produce intuitions, beliefs, behaviors, and experiences that are misattributed as being unique outcomes of religious or spiritual influences. Written from a social psychology perspective, this book proposes that religious and spiritual content …
Imagining the Cognitive Science of Religion
Magic Bullets, Complex Theories, Experimental Adventures
Av E. Thomas Lawson, Donald Wiebe m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
331 kr
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A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEUniting Thomas Lawson's essays on the cognitive science of religion, this volume explores theoretical issues in the study of cultural phenomena such as religion, the role of imagination, and the experiments that emerge from these theories.The book begins with …
Cognitive Science of Religion
A Methodological Introduction to Key Empirical Studies
Av D. Jason Slone, William W. McCorkle Jr.
Häftad, 2019
429 kr
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The Cognitive Science of Religion introduces students to key empirical studies conducted over the past 25 years in this new and rapidly expanding field. In these studies, cognitive scientists of religion have applied the theories, findings and research tools of the cognitive sciences to …
Religious Evolution and the Axial Age
From Shamans to Priests to Prophets
Av Stephen K. Sanderson, Donald Wiebe
Häftad, 2019
500 kr
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Religious Evolution and the Axial Age describes and explains the evolution of religion over the past ten millennia. It shows that an overall evolutionary sequence can be observed, running from the spirit and shaman dominated religions of small-scale societies, to the archaic religions of the …
Construction of the Supernatural in Euro-American Cultures
Something Nice about Vampires
Inbunden, 2021
1345 kr
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This book describes aspects of the concept of the supernatural from the intellectual history of Euro-American cultures. These samplings shed light on issues in the study of religions and religion rather than attempting to provide either a lineally coherent or exhaustive account of a somewhat …
Cognitive Science of Religion
A Methodological Introduction to Key Empirical Studies
Av D. Jason Slone, William W. McCorkle Jr.
Inbunden, 2019
1415 kr
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The Cognitive Science of Religion introduces students to key empirical studies conducted over the past 25 years in this new and rapidly expanding field. In these studies, cognitive scientists of religion have applied the theories, findings and research tools of the cognitive sciences to …
Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion
A Head Start
Häftad, 2019
500 kr
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Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson are considered the founders of the field of the cognitive science of religion. Since its inception over twenty years ago, the cognitive science of religion has raised questions about the philosophical foundations and implications of such a scientific …
Religion Explained?
The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-five Years
Av Luther H. Martin, Donald Wiebe
Häftad, 2019
500 kr
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With contributions from founders of the field, including Justin Barrett, E. Thomas Lawson, Robert N. McCauley, Paschal Boyer, Armin Geertz and Harvey Whitehouse, as well as from younger scholars from successive stages in the field’s development, this is an important survey of the first twenty-five …
Attraction of Religion
A New Evolutionary Psychology of Religion
Av D. Jason Slone, James A. Van Slyke
Häftad, 2016
514 kr
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Religion is an evolutionary puzzle. It involves beliefs in counterfactual worlds and engagement in costly rituals. Yet religion is widespread across all human cultures and eras. This begs the question, why are so many people attracted to religion? In The Attraction of Religion, essays by leading …
Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion
A Head Start
Inbunden, 2017
1838 kr
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Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson are considered the founders of the field of the cognitive science of religion. Since its inception over twenty years ago, the cognitive science of religion has raised questions about the philosophical foundations and implications of such a scientific …
Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion
A Head Start
E-bok, 2017
534 kr
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Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson are considered the founders of the field of the cognitive science of religion. Since its inception over twenty years ago, the cognitive science of religion has raised questions about the philosophical foundations and implications of such a scientific …
Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion
A Head Start
E-bok, 2017
546 kr
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Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson are considered the founders of the field of the cognitive science of religion. Since its inception over twenty years ago, the cognitive science of religion has raised questions about the philosophical foundations and implications of such a scientific …
Religion Explained?
The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-five Years
Av Luther H. Martin, Donald Wiebe
Inbunden, 2017
1838 kr
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With contributions from founders of the field, including Justin Barrett, E. Thomas Lawson, Robert N. McCauley, Paschal Boyer, Armin Geertz and Harvey Whitehouse, as well as from younger scholars from successive stages in the field’s development, this is an important survey of the first twenty-five …
Religion Explained?
The Cognitive Science of Religion After Twenty-Five Years
Av Luther H. Martin, Donald Wiebe
E-bok, 2017
546 kr
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With contributions from founders of the field, including Justin Barrett, E. Thomas Lawson, Robert N. McCauley, Paschal Boyer, Armin Geertz and Harvey Whitehouse, as well as from younger scholars from successive stages in the field''s development, this is an important survey of the first twenty-five …
Religion Explained?
The Cognitive Science of Religion After Twenty-Five Years
Av Luther H. Martin, Donald Wiebe
E-bok, 2017
534 kr
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With contributions from founders of the field, including Justin Barrett, E. Thomas Lawson, Robert N. McCauley, Paschal Boyer, Armin Geertz and Harvey Whitehouse, as well as from younger scholars from successive stages in the field''s development, this is an important survey of the first twenty-five …
Cognitive Science of Religion
A Methodological Introduction to Key Empirical Studies
Av D. Jason Slone, William W. McCorkle Jr.
E-bok, 2019
468 kr
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The Cognitive Science of Religion introduces students to key empirical studies conducted over the past 25 years in this new and rapidly expanding field. In these studies, cognitive scientists of religion have applied the theories, findings and research tools of the cognitive sciences to …
Cognitive Science of Religion
A Methodological Introduction to Key Empirical Studies
Av D. Jason Slone, William W. McCorkle Jr.
E-bok, 2019
468 kr
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The Cognitive Science of Religion introduces students to key empirical studies conducted over the past 25 years in this new and rapidly expanding field. In these studies, cognitive scientists of religion have applied the theories, findings and research tools of the cognitive sciences to …
Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion
Häftad, 2017
556 kr
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Radek Kundt compares the notion of evolution in cultural evolutionary theories with neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory to determine the value of the biological concept for studying culture. Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion surveys the historical background of …
Religious Evolution and the Axial Age
From Shamans to Priests to Prophets
Av Stephen K. Sanderson, Donald Wiebe
Inbunden, 2018
1838 kr
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Religious Evolution and the Axial Age describes and explains the evolution of religion over the past ten millennia. It shows that an overall evolutionary sequence can be observed, running from the spirit and shaman dominated religions of small-scale societies, to the archaic religions of the …
Religious Evolution and the Axial Age
From Shamans to Priests to Prophets
E-bok, 2018
546 kr
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Religious Evolution and the Axial Age describes and explains the evolution of religion over the past ten millennia. It shows that an overall evolutionary sequence can be observed, running from the spirit and shaman dominated religions of small-scale societies, to the archaic religions of the …
Religious Evolution and the Axial Age
From Shamans to Priests to Prophets
E-bok, 2018
530 kr
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Religious Evolution and the Axial Age describes and explains the evolution of religion over the past ten millennia. It shows that an overall evolutionary sequence can be observed, running from the spirit and shaman dominated religions of small-scale societies, to the archaic religions of the …
New Patterns for Comparative Religion
Passages to an Evolutionary Perspective
Av William E. Paden, Donald Wiebe
Häftad, 2017
514 kr
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The cross-cultural study of religion has always gone hand in hand with the worldview, sciences, or intellectual frameworks of the time. These frames, whether focused on psychology or politics, gender or colonialism, bring out perspectives for understanding religious behavior. Today one of our …
Unnatural History of Religions
Academia, Post-truth and the Quest for Scientific Knowledge
Av Leonardo Ambasciano, Donald Wiebe
Inbunden, 2018
1697 kr
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An Unnatural History of Religions examines the origins, development, and critical issues concerning the history of religion and its relationship with science. The book explores the ideological biases, logical fallacies, and unwarranted beliefs that surround the scientific foundations (or lack …
Unnatural History of Religions
Academia, Post-Truth and the Quest for Scientific Knowledge
E-bok, 2018
519 kr
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An Unnatural History of Religions examines the origins, development, and critical issues concerning the history of religion and its relationship with science. The book explores the ideological biases, logical fallacies, and unwarranted beliefs that surround the scientific foundations (or lack …
Unnatural History of Religions
Academia, Post-Truth and the Quest for Scientific Knowledge
E-bok, 2018
530 kr
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An Unnatural History of Religions examines the origins, development, and critical issues concerning the history of religion and its relationship with science. The book explores the ideological biases, logical fallacies, and unwarranted beliefs that surround the scientific foundations (or lack …
Language, Cognition, and Biblical Exegesis
Interpreting Minds
Av Ronit Nikolsky, István Czachesz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1697 kr
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What role do texts play in religious practice? What is the relationship between these texts and cognition? Are some texts more successful because they are better adapted to our cognitive structures? Why is biblical interpretation necessary, and what is the cognitive process behind it? This book …
Language, Cognition, and Biblical Exegesis
Interpreting Minds
Av Ronit Nikolsky, István Czachesz m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
515 kr
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What role do texts play in religious practice? What is the relationship between these texts and cognition? Are some texts more successful because they are better adapted to our cognitive structures? Why is biblical interpretation necessary, and what is the cognitive process behind it? This book …
Language, Cognition, and Biblical Exegesis
Interpreting Minds
Av Ronit Nikolsky, István Czachesz m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
515 kr
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What role do texts play in religious practice? What is the relationship between these texts and cognition? Are some texts more successful because they are better adapted to our cognitive structures? Why is biblical interpretation necessary, and what is the cognitive process behind it? This book …
Naturalism and Protectionism in the Study of Religions
Inbunden, 2020
1556 kr
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How should we study religion? Must we be religious ourselves to truly understand it? Do we study religion to advance our knowledge, or should the study of religions help to reintroduce the sacred into our increasingly secularized world? Juraj Franek argues that the study of religion has long been …
