Thinking about religion: extending the cognitive science of religion
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| Series: | Palgrave frontiers in philosophy of religion
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | x, 258 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 1137324740 9781137324740 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Series Editors Preface x
1 In the Beginning: Reconsidering the Cognitive
Science of Religion 1
Introduction 1
Establishing the boundaries 4
Cognitive science: an approach to cognition 11
The cognitive science of religion 13
The standard model of the cognitive science of religion 17
1. Ordinary, domain-specific cognitive functions support
religious representations 23
2. Intuitive domain inferences are violated with
minimally counterintuitive concepts 24
3. Agency detection leads to suppositions about the
presence of supernatural agents 25
4. Intentionality inferences stimulate judgements
about the intentions of supernatural agents 26
5. Emotion detection assigns emotional states to
supernatural agents along with existential implications 27
6. Social exchange inclinations reinforce costly
commitments to supernatural agents and ritualised
performances 28
7. Innate moral intuitions generate the conception of
supernatural agents wishes 28
Method and structure of the book 29
Conclusion 34
2 Religion in Mind: Religious Thoughts as Mental
Representations 35
Introduction 35
Explanations for religious representations 37
The composition of religious representations 39
What is a religious representation? 39
Minimally counterintuitive concepts 43
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Inference, attribution, and supernatural agency
representations 48
Antifragile concepts: why religious concepts linger 52
Conclusion 53
3 Sticky Thinking: Making Sense of Religious Thoughts 56
Introduction 56
Computational assumptions 58
The antecedents of modularity 59
Religious representation computation 63
Domain-specific modularity 65
Computation and cognitive adaptationism 69
Religion as a unique computational domain 72
Conclusion 74
4 Practicing and Preaching: The Psychology of
Religious Thinking 76
Introduction 76
Cognitive interpretations of ritual 79
Cognitive ritual theories 82
Modes of religiosity 85
Commitment and signalling 88
Emotion as a psychological mediator of religious cognition 91
Conclusion 92
5 God in the Brain: The Neurology of Religious Cognition 95
Introduction 95
Neural correspondence and religious cognition 98
The temporal lobe hypothesis 101
The neurotheological hypothesis 103
Flow states and vicarious experience 106
The god centre hypothesis 108
Implications of the hypotheses 109
Rituals, religious experience, and cognition 111
Bringing the hypotheses together: a theory of
religious experience 113
Conclusion 115 6
6 Making Meaning: Explaining Religion in Practice 118
Introduction 118
Why would anyone believe? 119
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Variability in religious cognition
The mechanisms of belief
Religious conversion
Decision-making and reasoning
Conclusion
Evolution and Revolution: The Biology of Belief
Introduction
Evolution and ultimate causes of religion
The CSR s evolutionary landscape
Evolutionary psychology and religion
Criticisms of evolutionary psychology
Group and cultural selection
Conclusion
The Belief Imperative: Towards an Integrated
Framework for Religious Cognition
Introduction
Inter-level theory and inter-disciplinary exchange
Inter-theoretical connections and integration
Inter-level mapping in the CSR: building an
extended model
Conclusion
Faith and Facts: Religious Cognition and What We
Think We Know
Introduction
1. Representational power
2. Computational power
3. Psychological plausibility
4. Neurological plausibility
5. Practical applicability
6. Evolutionary plausibility
7. Integrative power
Conclusion
Becoming Believers: An Extended Model of
Religious Cognition
Introduction
Some pointers from conversion theory
An overview of the model
viii Contents
1. Concepts: religious information 200
Root 200
Representations 203
Recall 204
2. Computation: the engine of belief 206
Rituals-rehearsal-retention 20 7
Roles-resistance-reflection 210
Rhetoric-reasoning-repetition 211
Relationships-refinement-restrictions 213
Revelations 214
Reason-refutation 215
Revisions-resilience 216
3. Commitment 217
Reinforcement 218
Rewards-redemption-respect 218
4. Consequences 219
Rules 219
Results 220
Reference 220
Answering the key questions 221
Final comments 223
Re-thinking religious cognition 225
References 228
Index 251
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