TY - BOOK AU - Robert N. McCauley AU - Robert N. McCauley TI - Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not SN - 9780199341542 U1 - 201.65 MCC PY - 2011/// CY - USA, Oxford PB - : Oxford University Press KW - Cognition and culture KW - Psychologie religieuse KW - Religious KW - Religion and science N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -