Evolution, Religion, and Cognitive Science - Critical and Constructive Essays

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List of contents

• 1: Léon Turner: Introduction: Pluralism and Complexity in the Evolutionary Cognitive Science of Religion


• 2: Ilkka Pyysiäinen: The Cognitive Science of Religion


• 3: Michael Ruse: Biologically Evolutionary Explanations of Religious Belief


• 4: Aku Visala: The Evolution of Divine and Human Minds: Evolutionary Psychology, the Cognitive Study of Religion and Theism.


• 5: Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Omar Sultan Haque, and Richard Sosis: Extending Evolutionary Accounts of Religion beyond the Mind: Religions as Adaptive Systems


• 6: Nathaniel F. Barrett: Skilful Engagement and the "Effort after Value": An Axiological Theory of the Origins of Religion


• 7: Fraser Watts: Religion and the Emergence of Differentiated Cognition


• 8: Wentzel van Huyssteen: From Empathy to Embodied Faith? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Evolution of Religion


• 9: Léon Turner: Neither Friends nor Enemies: The Complex Relationship Between Cognitive and Humanistic Accounts of Religious Belief


• 10: Timothy Jenkins: The Cognitive Science of Religion from an Anthropological Perspective: Nature and History Reconciled?


• 11: Leslie Newson and Peter Richerson: Religion: the Dynamics of Cultural Adaptations


• 12: William Sims Bainbridge: Artificial Intelligence Models of Religious Evolution


• 13: Malcolm Jeeves: Concluding Reflections

Summary

This evolutionary 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 volume brings together specialists from different disciplines to reflect on these questions.

Product details

• Authors: Leon P. Turner, Fraser Watts, Fraser Turner Watts, Revd. Dr. Fraser Turner Watts
• Assisted by: Léon P. Turner (Editor), Fraser Watts (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2014
• EAN: 9780199688081
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968808-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Evolution, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, RELIGION / Religion & Science, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Religion and science, Religion & science