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Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not / Robert N. McCauley

By: Robert N. McCauleyContributor(s): Robert N. McCauleyMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: : Zafaa Books & Distributors | : 313/56F, 49A, Anand Nagar, DelhiPublication details: USA, Oxford : Oxford University Press, , 2011Description: 352 pages : ill. :24cmISBN: 9780199341542Subject(s): Cognition and culture | Psychologie religieuse | Religious | Religion and scienceDDC classification: 201.65 MCC

Contents:

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

Summary: 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

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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

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