How Religion Works (Towards a New Cognitive Science of Religion)
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Product Details
Author:
Ilkka Pyysiäinen
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
276
Publisher:
Brill (July 28, 2003)
Imprint:
Brill
Language:
English
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13:
9789004132733
ISBN-10:
9004132732
Weight:
18.55oz
Dimensions:
6.3" x 9.45"
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$68.00
Country of Origin:
Netherlands
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Overview
Recent findings in cognitive science and evolutionary psychology provide important insights to the processes which make religious beliefs and behaviors such efficient attractors in and across various cultural settings. The specific salience of religious ideas is based on the fact that they are 'counter-intuitive': they contradict our intuitive expectations of how entities normally behave.
Counter-intuitive ideas are only produced by a mind capable of crossing the boundaries that separate such ontological domains as persons, living things, and solid objects. The evolution of such a mind has only taken place in the human species.
How certain kinds of counter-intuitive ideas are selected for a religious use is discussed from varying angles. Cognitive considerations are thus related to the traditions of comparative religion.
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Counter-intuitive ideas are only produced by a mind capable of crossing the boundaries that separate such ontological domains as persons, living things, and solid objects. The evolution of such a mind has only taken place in the human species.
How certain kinds of counter-intuitive ideas are selected for a religious use is discussed from varying angles. Cognitive considerations are thus related to the traditions of comparative religion.
This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.
