The New Sciences Of Religion
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Author | : W. Grassie |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2010-11-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0230114741 |
Performing a critical analysis of new scientific research on religious and spiritual phenomena, Grassie takes a two-staged phenomenological approach working from the 'outside in' and the 'bottom up' without privileging at the outset any religious traditions or philosophical assumptions.
Author | : Greg Dawes |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2012-12-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1136200800 |
Religious belief, once in the domain of the humanities, has found a new home in the sciences. Promising new developments in the study of religion by cognitive scientists and evolutionary theorists put forward empirical hypotheses regarding the origin, spread, and character of religious beliefs. Different theories deal with different aspects of human religiosity – some focus on religious beliefs, while others focus on religious actions, and still others on the origin of religious ideas. While these theories might share a similar focus, there is plenty of disagreement in the explanations they offer. This volume examines the diversity of new scientific theories of religion, by outlining the logical and causal relationships between these enterprises. Are they truly in competition, as their proponents sometimes suggest, or are they complementary and mutually illuminating accounts of religious belief and practice? Cognitive science has gained much from an interdisciplinary focus on mental function, and this volume explores the benefits that can be gained from a similar approach to the scientific study of religion.
Author | : Guy G. Stroumsa |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780674048607 |
Guy Stroumsa offers an innovative and powerful argument that the comparative study of religion finds its origin in early modern Europe. --from publisher description.
Author | : Robert N. McCauley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-11 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0199341540 |
A comparison of the cognitive foundations of religion and science and an argument that religion is cognitively natural and that science is cognitively unnatural.
Author | : W. Grassie |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2010-11-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0230114741 |
Performing a critical analysis of new scientific research on religious and spiritual phenomena, Grassie takes a two-staged phenomenological approach working from the 'outside in' and the 'bottom up' without privileging at the outset any religious traditions or philosophical assumptions.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2010-06-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004190538 |
This book brings together eminent and rising scholars from religious studies, science, sociology of religion, sociology of science, philosophy, and theology in order to engage the new atheism and place it in the context of broader debates in these areas.
Author | : Ilkka Pyysiäinen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2021-10-11 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9004496211 |
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. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
Author | : Philip Clayton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2013-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1136640673 |
Intelligent Design vs. the New Atheists.
Author | : Charles Taliaferro |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2011-11-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199563349 |
This engaging collection of essays locates the debate between theism and naturalism in the broader context of reflection on imagination and aesthetics. The eleven original essays will be of interest to anyone who is fascinated by the power of imagination and the role of aesthetics in deciding between worldviews or philosophies of nature.
Author | : J. Hick |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2006-11-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0230626432 |
This is the first major response to the challenge of neuroscience to religion. It considers eastern forms of religious experience as well as Christian viewpoints and challenges the idea of a mind identical to, or a by-product of, brain activity. It explores religion as inner experience of the Transcendent, and suggests a modern spirituality.