Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not
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| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford University Press, USA
2011
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| Beschreibung: | List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Natural Cognition; Chapter Two: Maturational Naturalness; Chapter Three: Unnatural Science; Chapter Four: Natural Religion; Chapter Five: Surprising Consequences; Notes; References; Index The battle between religion and science, competing methods of knowing ourselves and our world, has been raging for many centuries. Now scientists themselves are looking at cognitive foundations of religion--and arriving at some surprising conclusions. Over the course of the past two decades, scholars have employed insights gleaned from cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and related disciplines to illuminate the study of religion. In Why Religion is Natural and Science Is Not, Robert N. McCauley, one of the founding fathers of the cognitive science of religion, argues that our minds are b Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-326) and index |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (352 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0199827273 1283297027 9780199827275 9781283297028 |