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Mental culture : classical social theory and the cognitive science of religion

Title: Mental culture : classical social theory and the cognitive science of religion / edited by Dimitris Xygalatas and William W. McCorkle Jr.
Publication: Durham [England] ; Bristol, CT : Acumen Publishing, 2013.

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x, 268 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Religion, cognition and culture

Uniform Title

Religion, cognition and culture.

Alternative Title

Classical social theory and the cognitive science of religion

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-254) and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 14-3244

ISBN

9781844657421 (paperback)
1844657426 (paperback)
1844656640 (hardcover)
9781844656646 (hardcover)
9781844656646 (hardcover) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013388310

OCLC

846540191

Title

Mental culture : classical social theory and the cognitive science of religion / edited by Dimitris Xygalatas and William W. McCorkle Jr.

Imprint

Durham [England] ; Bristol, CT : Acumen Publishing, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Religion, cognition and culture

Religion, cognition and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-254) and index.

Added Author

McCorkle, William W., 1969- Editor

Xygalatas, Dēmētrēs. Editor

Note

Classical social theory and the cognitive science of religion

Research Call Number

JFE 14-3244

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