Cognitive Religious Studies
The cognitive science of religion is an interdisciplinary field of research that the religion of cognitive science examines sight. It seeks to clarify why religious modes of thinking and actions are universally widespread and why religious phenomena have characteristic features.
Cognitive Religious Studies emerged in 1975 from a research funding program of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation , which provided money for years to support the merging of theoretical approaches in artificial intelligence , psychology , neuroscience , linguistics , ethnology and philosophy .
Important research centers for cognitive religious studies are the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen's University of Belfast , the Department of Religion, Cognition and Culture at Aarhus University and the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies at Helsinki University .
literature
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Monographs:
- Justin L. Barrett: Cognitive Science of Religion: What Is It and Why Is It? Religion Compass 1 (2007): 768-786, ISSN 1749-8171
- Justin L. Barrett: Exploring the natural foundations of religion. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4, 1 (Jan. 2000): 29-34, ISSN 1364-6613
- Justin L. Barrett: Why would anyone believe in God? AltaMira, Walnut Creek 2004, ISBN 0-7591-0667-3
- Pascal Boyer: Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought. Basic Books, New York 2001, ISBN 0-465-00696-5
- E. Thomas Lawson: Towards a Cognitive Science of Religion. Numen 47, 3 (2000): 338-349
- Ilkka Pyysiäinen: Supernatural Agents: Why we Believe in Souls, Gods, and Buddhas. Oxford University Press, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-538002-6
- Schüler, Sebastian: Religion, Cognition, Evolution: A religious-scientific examination of the Cognitive Science of Religion. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2012
- Todd Tremlin: Minds and Gods: The Cognitive Foundations of Religion. Oxford University Press, New York 2006, ISBN 978-0-19-530534-0