Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not:
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Main Author: McCauley, Robert N. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press, USA 2011
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Item Description: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
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-326) and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (352 pages)
ISBN:0199827273
1283297027
9780199827275
9781283297028

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