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100 1 _aPyysiäinen, Ilkka
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aHow Religion Works :
_bTowards a New Cognitive Science of Religion /
_cIlkka Pyysiäinen.
246 3 _aTowards a New Cognitive Science of Religion
264 1 _aLeiden;
_aBoston :
_bBRILL,
_c2001.
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
490 1 _aCognition & Culture Book Series ;
_v1
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aRecent findings in cognitive science and evolutionary psychology provide important insights to the processes which make religious beliefs and behaviors such efficient attractors in and across various cultural settings. The specific salience of religious ideas is based on the fact that they are 'counter-intuitive': they contradict our intuitive expectations of how entities normally behave. Counter-intuitive ideas are only produced by a mind capable of crossing the boundaries that separate such ontological domains as persons, living things, and solid objects. The evolution of such a mind has only taken place in the human species. How certain kinds of counter-intuitive ideas are selected for a religious use is discussed from varying angles. Cognitive considerations are thus related to the traditions of comparative religion. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aCognitive science.
650 0 _aPsychology, Religious.
650 0 _aReligion and Psychology.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tHow Religion Works : Towards a New Cognitive Science of Religion.
_dLeiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2001
_z9789004123199
_w(OCoLC)48256087
830 0 _aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
830 0 _aCognition & Culture Book Series ;
_v1.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004496217
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