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Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (352 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780199827275
  • 0199827273
  • 1283297027
  • 9781283297028
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not.DDC classification:
  • 201.65
LOC classification:
  • BL240.3
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Natural Cognition; Chapter Two: Maturational Naturalness; Chapter Three: Unnatural Science; Chapter Four: Natural Religion; Chapter Five: Surprising Consequences; Notes; References; Index.
Summary: The battle between religion and science, competing methods of knowing ourselves and our world, has been raging for many centuries. Now scientists themselves are looking at cognitive foundations of religion--and arriving at some surprising conclusions. Over the course of the past two decades, scholars have employed insights gleaned from cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and related disciplines to illuminate the study of religion. In Why Religion is Natural and Science Is Not, Robert N. McCauley, one of the founding fathers of the cognitive science of religion, argues that our minds are b.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)395506

List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Natural Cognition; Chapter Two: Maturational Naturalness; Chapter Three: Unnatural Science; Chapter Four: Natural Religion; Chapter Five: Surprising Consequences; Notes; References; Index.

The battle between religion and science, competing methods of knowing ourselves and our world, has been raging for many centuries. Now scientists themselves are looking at cognitive foundations of religion--and arriving at some surprising conclusions. Over the course of the past two decades, scholars have employed insights gleaned from cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and related disciplines to illuminate the study of religion. In Why Religion is Natural and Science Is Not, Robert N. McCauley, one of the founding fathers of the cognitive science of religion, argues that our minds are b.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-326) and index.