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020 _a9781844657421
028 _a: Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd.
_b: E/261, Shastri Nagar, Delhi
_c: TB1907
_d15/10/2022
082 _a200.19 XYG
100 _a Xygalatas, Dēmētrēs.
100 _aMcCorkle, William W.
245 _aMental culture
_b : classical social theory and the cognitive science of religion.
_c/ Dēmētrēs Xygalatas.
260 _a, Durham,
_b: Acumen Publishing Limited
_c 2013
300 _a x, 268 pages
_b: illustrations
_c; 24 cm.
365 _b3821
505 _a Introduction : social minds, mental cultures : weaving together cognition and culture in the study of religion / William W. McCorkle Jr and Dimitris Xygalatas Explanatory pluralism and the cognitive science of religion : why scholars in religious studies should stop worrying about reductionism / Robert McCauley Early cognitive theorists of religion : Robin Horton and his predecessors / Stewart Guthrie The opium or the aphrodisiac of the people? : Darwinizing Marx on religion / Jason Slone Immortality, creation and regulation : updating Durkheim's theory of the sacred / Harvey Whitehouse Non-ordinary powers : charisma, special affordances and the study of religion / Ann Taves Malinowski's magic and Skinner's superstition : reconciling explanations of magical practices / Konrad Talmont-Kaminski Towards an evolutionary cognitive science of mental cultures : lessons from Freud / Joseph Bulbulia Piaget on moral judgement : towards a reconciliation with nativist and sociocultural approaches / Gordon Ingram Building on William James : the role of learning in religious experience / Tanya M. Luhrmann Explaining religious concepts : Lévi-Strauss the brilliant and problematic ancestor / Pascal Boyer The meaningful brain : Clifford Geertz and the cognitive science of culture / Armin W. Geertz Cognitive science and religious thought : the case of psychological interiority in the Analects / Edward Slingerland Conclusion : moving towards a new science of religion; or, have we already arrived? / Luther H. Martin and Ilkka Pyysiäinen
520 _aWhy is the set of human beliefs and behaviours that we call "religion" such a widespread feature of all known human societies, past and present, and why are there so many forms of religiosity found throughout history and culture? "Mental Culture" brings together an international range of scholars to answer these questions
650 _aAnthropologie religieuse
650 _aReligion and sociology
650 _aPsychologie religieuse
700 _aWilliam W. McCorkle
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