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Religion Explained
Language: en
Pages: 406
Authors: Pascal Boyer
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-03-21 - Publisher: Basic Books

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Many of our questions about religion, says the internationally renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, were once mysteries, but they no longer are: we are beginni
The Meaning and End of Religion
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Fortress Press

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Wilfred Cantwell Smith, maintained in this vastly important work that Westerners have misperceived religious life by making "religion" into one thing. He shows
Can Science Explain Religion?
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: James William Jones
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Argues that efforts by the anti-religious to explain and undermine religion through cognitive science are misguided and that these approaches can actually be us
The Meaning of Belief
Language: en
Pages: 207
Authors: Tim Crane
Categories: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher:

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Contemporary debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with their arguments, many plausible and some unanswerable, but these make no imp
Naturalism, Theism and the Cognitive Study of Religion
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Aku Visala
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-22 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book provides a critical philosophical analysis of the claim that contemporary cognitive approaches to religion undermine theistic beliefs. Recent scientif