A new cognitive approach to religion is bringing fresh insights to our understanding of how
religious concepts are maintained, acquired and used to motivate and direct actions. This�…

The new cognitive science of religion was motivated by dissatisfaction with the vagueness of
previous theories of religion, and thus the inability to be empirically tested, as well as by a�…

Religion in Mind is a 2001 text which summarizes and extends the advances in the cognitive
study of religion throughout the 1990s. It uses empirical research from psychology and�…

The cognitive science of religion is a relatively new academic field in the study of the origins
and causes of religious belief and behaviour. The focal point of empirical research is the role�…

Recent findings in cognitive science and evolutionary psychology provide important insights
to the processes which make religious beliefs and behaviors such efficient attractors in and�…

Cognitive science of religion (CSR) brings theories from the cognitive sciences to bear on
why religious thought and action is so common in humans and why religious phenomena�…

In recent decades, a new scientific approach to understand, explain, and predict many
features of religion has emerged. The cognitive science of religion (CSR) has amassed�…

Why have humans, throughout history and across cultures, shown a strong tendency to
believe in the existence of superhuman intentional agents and attached this belief to notions�…

This book develops a cognitive approach to religion. Focusing particularly on ritual action, it
borrows analytical methods from linguistics and other cognitive sciences. The authors�…

How are religious ideas presented, acquired and transmitted? Confronted with religious
practices, anthropologists have typically been content with sociological generalizations�…