The Roots of Religion

Exploring the Cognitive Science of Religion
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-54707-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Routledge Science and Religion Series

The cognitive science of religion is a new discipline that looks at the roots of religious belief in the cognitive architecture of the human mind. The Roots of Religion deals with the philosophical and theological implications of the cognitive science of religion which grounds religious belief in human cognitive structures: religious belief is ’natural’, in a way that even scientific thought is not. Does this new discipline support religious belief, undermine it, or is it, despite many claims, perhaps eventually neutral? This subject is of immense importance, particularly given the rise of the ’new atheism’. Philosophers and theologians from North America, UK and Australia, explore the alleged conflict between truth claims and examine the roots of religion in human nature. Is it less ’natural’ to be an atheist than to believe in God, or gods? On the other hand, if we can explain theism psychologically, have we explained it away. Can it still claim any truth? This book debates these and related issues.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trigg, Roger

Barrett, Justin L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Cognitive and Evolutionary Studies of Religion Justin L. Barrett and Roger Trigg 2 Intuition, Agency Detection, and Social Coordination as Analytical and Explanatory Constructs in the Cognitive Science of Religion Robert Audi 3 Whose Intuitions? Which Dualism? Steven Horst 4 Explaining Religion at Different Levels: From Fundamentalism to Pluralism Aku Visala 5 HADD, Determinism and Epicureanism: An Interdisciplinary Investigation Robin Attfield 6 Understanding ‘Person’ Talk: When is it Appropriate to Think in Terms of Persons? Graham Wood 7 Knowledge and the Objection to Religious Belief from Cognitive Science Kelly James Clark and Dani Rabinowitz 8 Assessing the Third Way Jason Marsh 9 Cognitive Science of Religion and the Rationality of Classical Theism T.J. Mawson 10 Cognitive Science and the Limits of Theology John Teehan 11 Some Reflections on Cognitive Science, Doubt, and Religious Belief Joshua C. Thurow 12 Human Nature and Religious Freedom Roger Trigg

Über Autor(innen)

Roger Trigg is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick, and Senior Research Fellow at the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford. He was the Founding President of the British Society of the Philosophy of Religion, and from 2008-10 was President of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion. The author of many books on the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of science, his most recent have been Equality, Freedom and Religion (2012) and Religious Diversity: Philosophical and Political Dimensions (2014).

Justin L. Barrett is the Thrive Professor of Developmental Science at Fuller Seminary’s Graduate School of Psychology, where he directs the Thrive Center for Human Development. He is also a research associate of Oxford University’s School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography. He is author of scores of academic articles and book chapters concerning cognitive science of religion and three books: Why Would Anyone Believe in God? (2004); Cognitive Science, Religion, & Theology (2011); and Born Believers: The Science of Children’s Religious Beliefs (2012).