The Cognitive Science of Imagination and Religion

Religion and imagination both deal with what is beyond the empirical here and now. In this article, I will argue that imagination as a capacity is highly important for the development, maintenance, and evolution of religion and the variety of components that together make a religion: (Religious) bel...

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Subtitles:Special Issue: Imagination & Religion
Main Author: Mulukom, Valerie van (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [2019]
In: Journal for the cognitive science of religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-20
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Imagination / Religion / Kognitive Religionswissenschaft / Faith / Supernatural being / Mentalization / Cognitive development / Narrative (Social sciences)
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
Further subjects:B Belief
B Absorption
B Mentalizing
B Imagination
B Narrative
B parasocial
B Religion
B Cognition
B Creativity
B Fiction
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