Mind and Religion: Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religion (Cognitive Science of Religion)
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Harvey Whitehouse (Contributor) Robert N. McCauley (Contributor) Pascal Boyer (Contributor) Robert Hinde (Contributor) E Thomas Lawson (Contributor) Todd Tremlin (Contributor) Matt Day (Contributor) Justin Barrett (Contributor) Rebekah A. Richert (Contributor) Ilkka Pyysiainen (Contributor)
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Recent cognitive approaches to the study of religion have yielded much understanding by focusing on common psychological processes that all humans share. One leading theory, Harvey WhitehouseOs modes of religiosity theory, demonstrates how two distinct modes of organizing and transmitting religious traditions emerge from different ways of activating universal memory systems. In Mind and Religion, top scholars from biology to religious studies question, test, evaluate and challenge WhitehouseOs sweeping thesis. The result is an up-to-date snapshot of the cognitive science of religion field for classes in psychology, anthropology, or history of religion.
About the Author
Harvey Whitehouse is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen's University Belfast. Robert N. McCauley is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University in Atlanta. He is the author, with E. Thomas Lawson, of Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture (1990) and Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms (2002).
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- Contributor: Harvey Whitehouse
- Imprint: AltaMira Press,U.S.
- ISBN13: 9780759106185
- Number of Pages: 248
- Packaged Dimensions: 157x241x23mm
- Packaged Weight: 621
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: AltaMira Press,U.S.
- Release Date: 2005-06-02
- Series: Cognitive Science of Religion
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Harvey Whitehouse is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen's University Belfast. Robert N. McCauley is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University in Atlanta. He is the author, with E. Thomas Lawson, of Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture (1990) and Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms (2002).
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