Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not
Robert N. McCauley
Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not / Robert N. McCauley - USA, Oxford : Oxford University Press, , 2011. - 352 pages : ill. :24cm.
List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Natural Cognition; Chapter Two: Maturational Naturalness; Chapter Three: Unnatural Science; Chapter Four: Natural Religion; Chapter Five: Surprising Consequences; Notes; References; Index
The battle between religion and science, competing methods of knowing ourselves and our world, has been raging for many centuries. Now scientists themselves are looking at cognitive foundations of religion--and arriving at some surprising conclusions. Over the course of the past two decades, scholars have employed insights gleaned from cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and related disciplines to illuminate the study of religion. In Why Religion is Natural and Science Is Not, Robert N. McCauley, one of the founding fathers of the cognitive science of religion, argues that our minds are b
9780199341542
Zafaa Books & Distributors : 313/56F, 49A, Anand Nagar, Delhi
Cognition and culture
Psychologie religieuse
Religious
Religion and science
201.65 MCC
Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not / Robert N. McCauley - USA, Oxford : Oxford University Press, , 2011. - 352 pages : ill. :24cm.
List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Natural Cognition; Chapter Two: Maturational Naturalness; Chapter Three: Unnatural Science; Chapter Four: Natural Religion; Chapter Five: Surprising Consequences; Notes; References; Index
The battle between religion and science, competing methods of knowing ourselves and our world, has been raging for many centuries. Now scientists themselves are looking at cognitive foundations of religion--and arriving at some surprising conclusions. Over the course of the past two decades, scholars have employed insights gleaned from cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and related disciplines to illuminate the study of religion. In Why Religion is Natural and Science Is Not, Robert N. McCauley, one of the founding fathers of the cognitive science of religion, argues that our minds are b
9780199341542
Zafaa Books & Distributors : 313/56F, 49A, Anand Nagar, Delhi
Cognition and culture
Psychologie religieuse
Religious
Religion and science
201.65 MCC
