1st Edition

Culture and the Cognitive Science of Religion

By James Cresswell Copyright 2018
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

Culture and the Cognitive Science of Religion is the first book to bring together cultural psychology and the cognitive science of religion (CSR). Containing much-needed discussion of how good research should do more than simply follow methodological prescriptions, this thought-provoking and original book outlines the ways in which CSR can be used to study everyday religious belief without... Read more

Series Editor’s Preface 

Preface 

1. Towards a Cognitive Science that Doesn’t Alienate Everyone Except Cognitive Scientists 

2. Seriously, Culture and Language Need to be Taken Seriously 

3. Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater I: Development of Religious Belief 

4. Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater II: Evolution and Experience 

5. On Being Good Researchers 

6. Does Reality and/or God Exist… Or Not? 

Conclusion 

References

Biography

James (Jim) Cresswell is an Associate Professor and Program Chair in Psychology at Ambrose University (Calgary, Canada).