Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction: social minds, mental cultures – weaving together cognition and culture in the study of religion
- 2 Explanatory pluralism and the cognitive science of religion: why scholars in religious studies should stop worrying about reductionism
- 3 Early cognitive theorists of religion: Robin Horton and his predecessors
- 4 The opium or the aphrodisiac of the people? Darwinizing Marx on religion
- 5 Immortality, creation and regulation: updating Durkheim's theory of the sacred
- 6 Non-ordinary powers: charisma, special affordances and the study of religion
- 7 Malinowski's magic and Skinner's superstition: reconciling explanations of magical practices
- 8 Towards an evolutionary cognitive science of mental cultures: lessons from Freud
- 9 Piaget on moral judgement: towards a reconciliation with nativist and sociocultural approaches
- 10 Building on William James: the role of learning in religious experience
- 11 Explaining religious concepts: Lévi-Strauss the brilliant and problematic ancestor
- 12 The meaningful brain: Clifford Geertz and the cognitive science of culture
- 13 Cognitive science and religious thought: the case of psychological interiority in the Analects
- 14 Conclusion: moving towards a new science of religion; or have we already arrived?
- Bibliography
- Index
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction: social minds, mental cultures – weaving together cognition and culture in the study of religion
- 2 Explanatory pluralism and the cognitive science of religion: why scholars in religious studies should stop worrying about reductionism
- 3 Early cognitive theorists of religion: Robin Horton and his predecessors
- 4 The opium or the aphrodisiac of the people? Darwinizing Marx on religion
- 5 Immortality, creation and regulation: updating Durkheim's theory of the sacred
- 6 Non-ordinary powers: charisma, special affordances and the study of religion
- 7 Malinowski's magic and Skinner's superstition: reconciling explanations of magical practices
- 8 Towards an evolutionary cognitive science of mental cultures: lessons from Freud
- 9 Piaget on moral judgement: towards a reconciliation with nativist and sociocultural approaches
- 10 Building on William James: the role of learning in religious experience
- 11 Explaining religious concepts: Lévi-Strauss the brilliant and problematic ancestor
- 12 The meaningful brain: Clifford Geertz and the cognitive science of culture
- 13 Cognitive science and religious thought: the case of psychological interiority in the Analects
- 14 Conclusion: moving towards a new science of religion; or have we already arrived?
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Mental CultureClassical Social Theory and the Cognitive Science of Religion, pp. 227 - 254Publisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2013