The minds of gods: new horizons in the naturalistic study of religion
Why are humans obsessed with divine minds? What do gods know and what do they care about? What happens to us and our relationships when gods are involved? Drawing from neuroscience, evolutionary, cultural, and applied anthropology, social psychology, religious studies, philosophy, technology, and co...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomsbury Academic
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Series/Journal: | Scientific studies of religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Gods
/ Naturalism (Philosophy)
/ Psychologist of religion
/ Kognitive Religionswissenschaft
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AE Psychology of religion |
| Further subjects: | B
Naturalism
Religious aspects
B Religion und Wissenschaft B Cognition & cognitive psychology B Psychology and religion B RELIGION / Psychology of Religion B Gods Psychological aspects B RELIGION / Religion & Science B RELIGION & science B Cognitive psychology B Natur und Existenz Gottes B Nature & existence of God |
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| Summary: | Why are humans obsessed with divine minds? What do gods know and what do they care about? What happens to us and our relationships when gods are involved? Drawing from neuroscience, evolutionary, cultural, and applied anthropology, social psychology, religious studies, philosophy, technology, and cognitive and political sciences, The Minds of Gods probes these questions from a multitude of naturalistic perspectives. Each chapter offers brief intellectual histories of their topics, summarizes current cutting-edge questions in the field, and points to areas in need of attention from future researchers. Through an innovative theoretical framework that combines evolutionary and cognitive approaches to religion, this book brings together otherwise disparate literatures to focus on a topic that has comprised a lasting, central obsession of our species |
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| ISBN: | 1350265705 |