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How Religion Works: Towards a New Cognitive Science of Religion - Softcover

Pyysiäinen, Ilkka

 
9789004132733: How Religion Works: Towards a New Cognitive Science of Religion
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9004132732 ISBN 13: 9789004132733
Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2003

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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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Ilkka Pyysiäinen, Ph.D. (1993), University of Helsinki, is Academy Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland. He has published numerous articles and edited the volume Current Approaches in the Cognitive Study of Religion (Continuum, 2002).

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Verlag
BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9004132732
ISBN 13 
9789004132733
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
276
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