Can Science Explain Religion?: The Cognitive Science Debate

by James William Jones

Book Overview

The "New Atheist" movement of recent years has put the science-versus-religion controversy back on the popular cultural agenda. Anti-religious polemicists are convinced that the application of the new sciences of the mind to religious belief gives them the final weapons in their battle against irrationality and superstition. What used to be a trickle of research papers scattered in specialized scientific journals has now become a torrent of books,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190249382
• ISBN13: 9780190249380
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.3"