Current approaches in the cognitive science of religion

Abstract

Pascal Boyer - why do gods and spirits matter at all? supernatural gadgets and social mind adaptations Ilkka Pyysiainen - religion and counter-intuitive Justin L. Barrett - dumb gods, petitionary prayer, and cognitive science of religion Stewart Guthrie - animal animism: evolutionary roots of religious cognition Pertti Saariluoma - does classification explicate contents of concepts? E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley - cognitive constraints on religious ritual form - a theory of participants' competence with religious systems Harvey Whitehouse - implicit and explicit knowledge in domain of ritual Jeppe Sinding Jensen - complex worlds of religion - connecting cultural and cognitive analysis Veikko Anttonen - identifying generative mechanisms of religion - issue of origin revisited Jesper Sorensen - the morphology and function of magic revisited Matti Kamppinen - explaining religion - cognitive and evolutionary mechanisms.

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