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Books in the Cognitive Science of Religion series

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  • - Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religion
     
    £41.99

    This collection examines new psychological evidence for the modal theory and attempts to synthesize this theory with other theories of cognition and religion.

  • - A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission
    by Harvey Whitehouse
    £33.99 - 83.99

    Religions_whatever else they may be_are configurations of cultural information reproduced across space and time. Beginning with this seemingly obvious fact of religious transmission, Harvey Whitehouse goes on to construct a testable theory of how religions are created, passed on, and changed. At the center of his theory are two divergent 'modes of religiosity: ' the imagistic and the doctrinal

  • by Justin L. Barrett
    £27.49

    Including evidence from cognitive science, this book shows that belief in God is an almost inevitable consequence.

  • - Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religion
     
    £100.49

    This collection examines new psychological evidence for the modal theory and attempts to synthesize this theory with other theories of cognition and religion.

  • - Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion
     
    £98.99

    Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. This work features a range of ethnographers who grapple critically with Harvey Whitehouse's theory of two divergent modes of religiosity.

  • - A Scientist's Perspective
    by Ilkka Pyysieinen
    £42.49 - 98.99

    A collection of essays which show how findings from cognitive science can offer directions to debates in religion. It demonstrates how knowledge of the mind's workings can help deconstruct such concepts as god, ideology, culture, magic, miracles, and religion. It is suitable for scholars of religion or for scholars of the mind-brain.

  • - An Anthropological Study of Evangelical Biblicism
    by Brian Malley
    £90.49

    What do evangelicals believe when they believe in the Bible? Despite hundreds of English versions that differ in their texts, evangelicals believe that there is a stable text - the Bible - which is the authoritative word of God.

  • by Jesper Sorensen
    £36.99 - 91.49

    Presents a theory of magical actions based on an array of findings in the cognitive sciences. This book argues that focusing on the underlying cognitive processes not only explains why magical rituals look the way they do, it also supplies insights into the role of magic in the formation of institutionalised religion.

  • - Archaeology, History, and Cognition
     
    £40.99

    Historians bound by their singular stories and archaeologists bound by their material evidence do not typically seek out broad comparative theories of religion. But Harvey Whitehouse's 'modes of religiosity' theory has been attracting many scholars.

  • - Artificial Intelligence Models of Religious Cognition
    by William Sims Bainbridge
    £33.99 - 85.49

    A demonstration of how religion and religious belief can emerge using computer simulations

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