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Title Religion and cognition : a reader / edited by D. Jason Slone.

Publication Information London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2006.
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 Main Stock  Book - 21-Day  200.19 SLO  AVAILABLE
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Description x, 362 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series Critical categories in the study of religion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Part I 1. "The Social Siences" E.O. Wilson 2. "The Epidemiology of Beliefs: A Naturalistic Approach." D. Sperber 3. "Toward a Topography of Mind: An Introduction to Domain Specificity" L. Hirschfeld & S. Gelman. 4. "Interpretation and Explanation: Problems and Promise in the Study of Religion." E.T. Lawson & R.N. McCauley. 5. "Exploring the Natural Foundations of Religion." J. Barrett Part II 6. "Anthropomorphism and God Concepts: Conceptualizing a Non-Natural Entity." J. Barrett & F. Keil. 7. "Spreading Non-Natural Concepts: The Role of Intuitive Conceptual Structures in Memory and Transmission in Culture." J. Barrett & M. Nyhoff. 8. "Cognitive Templates for Religious Concepts: Cross-Cultural Evidence for Recall of Counter-Intuitive Representations." P. Boyer & C. Ramble 9. "Ritual Intuitions: Cognitive Contributions to Judgments of Ritual Efficacy." J. Barrett & E.T. Lawson. 10. "Cognitive and Contextual Factors In the Emergence of Diverse Belief Systems: Creation vs. Evolution." E.M. Evans. 11. "Are Children Intuitive Theists? Reasoning and Purpose in Design and Nature." D. Keleman. 12. "Children's Attributes of Beliefs to Humans and God: Cross-Cultural Evidence." N. Knight, J. Barrett, S. Atran, & P. Sousa. 13. "The Natural Emergence of Afterlife Reasoning as a Developmental Regularity." J. Bering & D. Bjorklund.
Subject Psychology, Religious.
Cognition.
Cognitive psychology.
Added Author Slone, D. Jason.
ISBN 9781904768708
1904768709