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Culture and the Cognitive Science of Religion - Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation Cresswell, James (Ambrose University, Canada) 1st edition
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Cresswell, James (Ambrose University, Canada)
Culture and the Cognitive Science of Religion is the first book to bring together cultural psychology and the cognitive science of religion (CSR). Containing much-needed discussion of how good research should do more than simply follow methodological prescriptions, this thought-provoking and original bookoutlines the ways in which CSR can be used to study everyday religious belief without sacrificing psychological science.
Cresswell?s pragmatist approach expands CSR in a?radically new direction. The author shows how language and culture can be integrated within CSR in order to achieve an alternative ontogenetic and phylogenetic approach to cognition, and argues that a view of cognition that is not based on modularity, but on the dynamic connection between an organism and its milieu, can lead to a view of evolution that makes much more room for the constitutive role of culture in cognition.
As a provocative attempt to persuade researchers to engage with religious communities more directly, thebook should be essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students, as well as psychologists interested in the cognitive science of religion, theological anthropology, religious studies and cultural anthropology.
128 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 30, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138219397 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 142 |
| Dimensions | 161 × 241 × 14 mm · 360 g |
| Language | English |
