Thinking about Religion: Extending the Cognitive Science of Religion

by Aaron C. T. Smith and Aaron C.T. Smith

Book Overview

Thinking about Religion presents a case for an inter-disciplinary science of religion, proposing that religion operates as a kind of psychological and social placebo effect. Religious belief combines thought, feeling and experience in a way that leverages the natural tendency of the mind to latch on to socially and personally useful concepts. This effect delivers tangible benefits because religious concepts and practice feed the mind's natural drive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137324740
• ISBN13: 9781137324740
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"