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Informationen zum Autor Jensine Andresen is Assistant Professor of Theology at Boston University where she teaches in the Graduate Program in Science! Philosophy and Religion. Klappentext Originally published in 2001! Religion in Mind summarizes and extends the advances in the cognitive study of religion throughout the 1990s. Zusammenfassung Originally published in 2001! Religion in Mind summarizes and extends the advances in the cognitive study of religion throughout the 1990s. It will be of interest to researchers in anthropology! psychology! sociology! history! philosophy! and cognitive science and also to the general reader interested in religion and science. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: towards a cognitive science of religion Jensine Andresen; Part I. Belief Acquisition and the Spread of Religious Representations: 2. On what we may believe about beliefs Benson Saler; 3. Cognition, emotion, and religious experience Ilkka Pyysiäinen; 4. Why gods? A cognitive theory Stewart Guthrie; Part II. Questioning the 'Representation' of Religious Ritual Action: 5. Ritual, memory, and emotion: comparing two cognitive hypotheses Robert N. McCauley; 6. Psychological perspectives on agency E. Thomas Lawson; 7. Do children experience God like adults? Justin L. Barrett; Part III. Embodied Models of Religion: 8. Cognitive study of religion and Husserlian phenomenology: making better tools for the analysis of cultural systems Matti Kamppinen; 9. Why a proper science of mind implies the transcendence of nature Francisco J. Varela; 10. Religion and the frontal lobes Patrick McNamara; 11. Conclusion: religion in the flesh: forging new methodologies for the study of religion Jensine Andresen.
