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Naturalism, Theism and the Cognitive Study of Religion

Religion Explained?

  • Hardback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm

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This book provides a critical philosophical analysis of the claim that contemporary cognitive approaches to religion undermine theistic beliefs. Recent scientific work into the evolution and cognition of religion has been driven by and interpreted in terms of a certain kind of philosophical and methdological naturalism. The book argues that such naturalism is not necessary for the cognitive study of religion and develops an alternative philosophical and methodological framework. This alternative framework opens the cognitive study of religion to theological and philosophical considerations and clarifies its relationship to other approaches to religious phenomena. This unique contribution to discussions regarding the philosophical and theological implications of the cognitive study of religion summarizes the so far fragmentary discussion, exposes its underlying assumptions, and develops a novel framework for further discussion.

  • Title

    Naturalism, Theism and the Cognitive Study of Religion

  • Author

    Aku Visala

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Ashgate Publishing Group

  • Published

    August 2011

  • Edition

    New edition

  • Weight

    504g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9781409424260

  • ISBN-10

    140942426X

  • Eden Code

    4029085

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