How Religion Works: Towards a New Cognitive Science of Religion

by Ilkka Pyysiäinen

Recent findings in cognitive science and evolutionary psychology provide important insights to the processes which make religious beliefs and behaviors such efficient attractors in and across various cultural settings. The specific salience of religious ideas is based on the fact that they are 'counter-intuitive': they contradict our intuitive expectations of how entities normally behave.
Counter-intuitive ideas are only produced by a mind capable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004132732
• ISBN13: 9789004132733
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.5"