Naturalism, Theism and the Cognitive Study of Religion: Religion Explained? By Aku Visala
This book is largely devoted to an examination of the relationship between naturalism and the cognitive study of religion (CSR), though it moves on in the last chapter to consider the implications for theism. It is a timely issue to be examining, as CSR has recently been one of the most high-profile...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 867-868 |
| Review of: | Naturalism, theism and the cognitive study of religion (Farnham [u.a.] : Ashgate, 2011) (Watts, Fraser N.)
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| Summary: | This book is largely devoted to an examination of the relationship between naturalism and the cognitive study of religion (CSR), though it moves on in the last chapter to consider the implications for theism. It is a timely issue to be examining, as CSR has recently been one of the most high-profile and controversial approaches to the study of religion, and has frequently been supposed to undermine theistic assumptions., Many core exponents of CSR, Pascal Boyer for example, make strict naturalistic assumptions. They are critical of the approach to religion taken in the social sciences by people such as Clifford Geertz. The bold programme of CSR is to replace that kind of cultural interpretation of religion with the kind of causal explanation of religion that falls within natural science. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flt151 |