The cognitive science of religion (CSR) arose out of attempts to “science up” religious
studies and the anthropology of religion without eliminating interpretive approaches. While�…

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�…

Cognitive science of religion (CSR) has increased influence in religious studies, the
resistance of religious protectionists notwithstanding. CSR's most provocative work stresses�…

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�…

Scores of different schools of thought have claimed to explain religion. And thousands of
scholars have contributed to the ensuing debates using evidence from such diverse sources�…

The papers in this issue arose from a conference on the Psychological and Cognitive
Foundations of Religiosity that took place at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) in August�…

Cognitive approaches to religious phenomena have attracted considerable interdisciplinary
attention since their emergence a couple of decades ago. Proponents offer explanatory�…

The cognitive science of religion is an inherently heterogeneous subject, incorporating
theory and data from anthropology, psychology, sociology, evolutionary biology, and�…

Over the past 15 years or so, the number of empirical projects in the cognitive science of
religion (CSR) has grown exponentially and so too has the amount of attention paid to the�…

Religions--whatever else they may be--are configurations of cultural information reproduced
across space and time. Beginning with this seemingly obvious fact of religious transmission�…