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9780759106192

Mind and Religion Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religion

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    9780759106192

  • ISBN10:

    0759106193

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-05-05
  • Publisher: AltaMira Press
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Summary

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

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction xi
Robert N. McCauley
Part I: The Theoretical Context
1 A Reductionistic Model of Distinct Modes of Religious Transmission
3(28)
Pascal Boyer
2 Modes Theory: Some Theoretical Considerations
31(26)
Robert A. Hinde
3 Ritual Form and Ritual Frequency: From Ethnographic Reports to Experimental Findings
57(12)
E. Thomas Lawson
4 Divergent Religion: A Dual-Process Model of Religious Thought, Behavior, and Morphology
69(16)
Todd Tremlin
5 Rethinking Naturalness: Modes of Religiosity and Religion in the Round
85(24)
Matthew Day
Part II: Testing the Modes Theory
6 In the Empirical Mode: Evidence Needed for the Modes of Religiosity Theory
109(18)
Justin Barrett
7 Memory and Analogical Thinking in High-Arousal Rituals
127(22)
Rebekah A. Richert, Harvey Whitehouse, and Emma Stewart
Part III: Wider Applications
8 Religious Conversion and Modes of Religiosity
149(18)
Ilkka Pyysiäinen
9 Charisma, Tradition, and Ritual: A Cognitive Approach to Magical Agency
167(20)
Jesper Sørensen
10 Why Religions Develop Free-Will Problems
187(20)
D. Jason Slone
11 The Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity
207(26)
Harvey Whitehouse
Index 233(12)
About the Contributors 245

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