Recent Trends in the Cognitive Science of Religion: Neuroscience, Religious Experience, and the Confluence of Cognitive and Evolutionary Research

Cognitive science of religion (CSR) has increased influence in religious studies, the resistance of religious protectionists notwithstanding. CSR's most provocative work stresses the role of implicit cognition in explaining religious thought and conduct. Exhibiting explanatory pluralism, CSR se...

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Main Author: McCauley, Robert N. 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- [2020]
In: Zygon
Year: 2020, Volume: 55, Issue: 1, Pages: 97-124
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Kognitive Religionswissenschaft / Neurosciences / Religious experience / Theory of evolution
IxTheo Classification:AA Study of religion
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AE Psychology of religion
Further subjects:B 6E cognitive science
B credibility-enhancing displays (CREDs)
B explanatory pluralism
B Big Gods
B By-Product Theory
B cognitive science of religion
B fire-walking
B New Atheists
B cognitive resource depletion hypothesis
B cultural group selection
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