Religion Explained?: The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years

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Main Author: Martin, Luther H. 1937- (Author)
Contributors: Wiebe, Donald 1943- (Contributor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: London Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2017
In:Year: 2017
Series/Journal:Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation Ser
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Kognitive Religionswissenschaft
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AE Psychology of religion
Further subjects:B Cognitive Science
B Collection of essays
B Religion
B Electronic books
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
Print version: Martin, Luther H: Religion Explained? : The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,c2017. - 9781350032460
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Summary:Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustration -- Contributors -- Introduction: Religion Explained? The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years -- Part One Retrospectives -- 1 The Cognitive Science of Religion and the Growth of Knowledge -- 2 Twenty-Five Years In: Landmark Empirical Findings in the Cognitive Science of Religion* -- Explanatory pluralism -- Avoiding the quandaries of interpretive exclusivism -- The development of CSR as a scientific enterprise with new experimental findings generating theories from the bottom-up -- Three effects -- Theological incorrectness -- Promiscuous teleology -- Dead agents' minds -- Minimally counterintuitive religious representations -- New directions -- Evolutionary theorizing -- Cognitive neuroscience -- Religious experience -- Afterword -- 3 Twenty-Five Years of CSR: A Personal Retrospective -- A little more than twenty-five years ago -- The early nineties -- Ritual and causal opacity -- Ritual as social glue -- Quantifying ritual -- From fusion to fanaticism -- Summing up -- Acknowledgments -- 4 The Beautiful Butterfly: On the History of and Prospects for the Cognitive Science of Religion -- Where did we come from? -- What is cognition? -- What have we achieved so far? -- Then what happened? -- Meeting psychology and doing experiments (good and bad things about it) -- Experimental psychology studies: Standard paradigms -- Religion-by-proxy studies -- Authentic religion studies -- A guide for CSR scholars and adversaries -- What's next? Multidisciplinary integration -- Conclusion -- Part Two State of the Art -- 5 Religion Explained? Some Variants of Cognitive Theory -- Introduction -- Current theory -- A cognitive theory revisited -- Summary and conclusion -- 6 Cognitive Attractors in the Evolution and Diffusion of Religious Representations.
The standard cognitive model: Religious representations -- No such thing as Religion -- The next frontier: Attractors and diffusion -- An example: Life-history and moralizing doctrines -- Different attractors and strategies -- 7 The Long Way from Cognitive Science to History: To Shorten the Distance and Fill in the Blanks* -- Introduction -- History, cognition, and culture -- History as a cognitive enterprise -- Conclusion -- 8 The Indispensability of Cognitive Science for a Genuine History of Religion -- History of religion as vertical anthropology -- Why resuscitate terms like "magic" and "ritual efficaciousness"? -- Accounting for magic from a cognitive science perspective -- The indispensability of cognitive science for a history of religion worth its name -- Part Three CSR 2.0 -- 9 Exiting the Motel of the Mysteries? How Historiographical Floccinaucinihilipilification Is Affecting CSR 2.0 -- Introduction -- What is CSR 2.0? -- The misunderstanding of presentism -- Unbiased hypothesis-driven research? -- The past, mathematically speaking -- If it's not dressed in a lab coat, it's not science. Or, is it? -- Conclusion: My map is (not quite exactly) your territory -- Acknowledgments -- 10 Minimal Counterintuitiveness Revisited, Again: The Role of Emotional Valence in Memory for Conceptual Incongruity -- Introduction -- Emotion and conceptual incongruities -- Subjects -- Stimuli -- Procedure -- Results -- Immediate recall -- Delayed recognition -- Summary -- Incorporating culture into future research -- Acknowledgments -- 11 Constraints on Theory-Building in the Cognitive Science of Religion with Reflections on the Influence of Physics Envy and th -- Introduction -- Physics envy -- Cohen's book review (a cautionary tale) -- The social sciences: Some considerations -- Parsimony and sufficient reason -- Big Gods -- Canaries in coal mines
12 The Effects of Relative Stable Feedback Loops: Cognitive Science and Historical Explanations -- Deep history in human cognition: Macro-history -- The cognitive science of everyday behavior: Micro-history -- The emergence of fairly stable feedback loops: Meso-history -- Where do we go from here? -- Part Four Looking Forward -- 13 The Road Not Taken: Possible Paths for the Cognitive Science of Religion -- Introduction -- Assessing the cognitive science of religion -- The marriage of religious studies and cognitive science -- Fundamental principles of the cognitive science of religion -- Comparing human behavioral ecology and the cognitive science of religion -- Comparing evolutionary psychology and the cognitive science of religion -- Future directions and friendly advice -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- 14 Looking Back to Look Forward: From Shannon and Turing to Lawson and McCauley to ...? -- Introduction -- The Beginning -- CSR's prehistory -- Cybernetics of language -- Learning from our past -- Concerning definitions -- Concerning methodological and theoretical assumptions -- Concerning interpretation/explanation -- The third option -- The next twenty-five years of CSR -- 15 A Neo-Victorian Cognitive Science of Religion -- Rediscovering the wheel -- Anniversaries of cognitive anthropology -- Academic resistance -- A nomadic field -- Neo-Victorians -- Conclusion On Keeping Cognitive Science of Religion Cognitive and Cultural -- Some core commitments -- Explanation of cultural expression commonly regarded as "religious" -- Avoiding definitional quagmires -- Methodological naturalism -- Interdisciplinarity -- Focus on cognition -- Cognition and culture drifting apart -- Notes -- Introduction: Religion Explained? The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years
2 Twenty- Five Years In: Landmark Empirical Findings in the Cognitive Science of Religion -- 8 The Indispensability of Cognitive Science for a Genuine History of Religion -- 9 Exiting the Motel of the Mysteries? How Historiographical Floccinaucinihilipilification Is Affecting CSR 2.0 -- 10 Minimal Counterintuitiveness Revisited, Again: The Role of Emotional Valence in Memory for Conceptual Incongruity -- 12 The Effects of Relative Stable Feedback Loops: Cognitive Science and Historical Explanations -- 14 Looking back to Look Forward: From Shannon and Turing to Lawson and McCauley to . . .? -- 15 A Neo-Victorian Cognitive Science of Religion -- Conclusion: On keeping Cognitive Science of Religion Cognitive and Cultural -- References -- Index
ISBN:1350032476