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1. The naturalness of religious ideas : a cognitive theory of religion [1994]

Description
Book — 324 p.
Summary
Why do people have religious ideas? And why thosereligious ideas? The main theme of Pascal Boyer's work is that important aspects of religious representations are constrained by universal properties of the human mind-brain. Experimental results from developmental psychology, he says, can explain why certain religious representations are more likely to be acquired, stored, and transmitted by human minds. Considering these universal constraints, Boyer proposes an exciting new answer to the question of why similar religious representations are found in so many different cultures. His work will be widely discussed by cultural anthropologists, psychologists, and students of religion, history, and philosophy.
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Green Library

2. Religion in mind : cognitive perspectives on religious belief, ritual, and experience [2001]

  • New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Description
Book — xi, 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary
  • 1. Introduction: towards a cognitive science of religion Jensine Andresen-- Part I. Belief Acquisition and the Spread of Religious Representations:
  • 2. On what we may believe about beliefs Benson Saler--
  • 3. Cognition, emotion, and religious experience Ilkka Pyysiainen--
  • 4. Why gods? A cognitive theory Stewart Guthrie-- Part II. Questioning the 'Representation' of Religious Ritual Action:
  • 5. Ritual, memory, and emotion: comparing two cognitive hypotheses Robert N. McCauley--
  • 6. Psychological perspectives on agency E. Thomas Lawson--
  • 7. Do children experience God like adults? Justin L. Barrett-- Part III. Embodied Models of Religion:
  • 8. Cognitive study of religion and Husserlian phenomenology: making better tools for the analysis of cultural systems Matti Kamppinen--
  • 9. Why a proper science of mind implies the transcendence of nature Francisco J. Varela--
  • 10. Religion and the frontal lobes Patrick McNamara--
  • 11. Conclusion: religion in the flesh: forging new methodologies for the study of religion Jensine Andresen.
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Religion in Mind summarizes and extends the last decade's advances in the cognitive study of religion. Its aim is to use empirical research from psychology and anthropology to understand different components of religious belief, ritual and experience. The book examines cognitive dimensions of religion within a naturalistic view of culture, while preserving a respect for the phenomenology of religion and drawing together teachers of religion, psychologists of religion and cognitive scientists. Expert contributors focus on phenomena such as belief-fixation and transmission; attributions of agency; anthropomorphizing; counterintuitive religious representations; the well-formedness of religious rituals; links between religious representations and emotions; and the development of god concepts. The work encourages greater interdisciplinary linkages between scholars from different fields and will be of interest to researchers in anthropology, psychology, sociology, history, philosophy, and cognitive science and also to the general reader interested in religion and science.
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Green Library

3. Religion and cognition : a reader [2006]

  • London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2006.
Description
Book — x, 362 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Summary
  • Part I
  • 1. "The Social Siences" E.O. Wilson
  • 2. "The Epidemiology of Beliefs: A Naturalistic Approach." D. Sperber
  • 3. "Toward a Topography of Mind: An Introduction to Domain Specificity" L. Hirschfeld & S. Gelman.
  • 4. "Interpretation and Explanation: Problems and Promise in the Study of Religion." E.T. Lawson & R.N. McCauley.
  • 5. "Exploring the Natural Foundations of Religion." J. Barrett Part II
  • 6. "Anthropomorphism and God Concepts: Conceptualizing a Non-Natural Entity." J. Barrett & F. Keil.
  • 7. "Spreading Non-Natural Concepts: The Role of Intuitive Conceptual Structures in Memory and Transmission in Culture." J. Barrett & M. Nyhoff.
  • 8. "Cognitive Templates for Religious Concepts: Cross-Cultural Evidence for Recall of Counter-Intuitive Representations." P. Boyer & C. Ramble
  • 9. "Ritual Intuitions: Cognitive Contributions to Judgments of Ritual Efficacy." J. Barrett & E.T. Lawson.
  • 10. "Cognitive and Contextual Factors In the Emergence of Diverse Belief Systems: Creation vs. Evolution." E.M. Evans.
  • 11. "Are Children Intuitive Theists? Reasoning and Purpose in Design and Nature." D. Keleman.
  • 12. "Children's Attributes of Beliefs to Humans and God: Cross-Cultural Evidence." N. Knight, J. Barrett, S. Atran, & P. Sousa.
  • 13. "The Natural Emergence of Afterlife Reasoning as a Developmental Regularity." J. Bering & D. Bjorklund.
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This volume explores "cognition" in the study of religion--that is, the mental processes that govern religious belief and behavior across cultures and eras. The essays in the volume are scientific in nature and universal in scope. They address (a) the naturalistic meta-theoretical stances taken to epistemologically justify cognitive explanations of religion, (b) the theoretical models of cognition that are employed in the cognitive science of religion, (c) the prominent cognitive theories of religion to date, (d) the methods used to gather data and test theories, and (e) experimental findings by cognitive scientists of religion. The volume is divided into two Parts. Part 1 includes selections that cover the meta-theories and theories employed by cognitive scientists of religion, and Part II includes experimental studies of religion. Combined, these selections make the volume especially useful for introducing students to the basic framework of the cognitive science of religion as well as to the experimental methods and findings that support cognitive theories of religion.
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4. Religious cognition in China : "Homo religiosus" and the dragon [2017]

  • Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
Description
Book — viii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Summary
  • Part I.-
  • 1: Chinese Religious Exceptionalism, David Palmer.-
  • 2: Chinese Psychological Exceptionalism, Li-Jun Ji, Emily Chan.-
  • 3: China and Dualism: Lessons for the Cognitive Science of Religion, Edward Slingerland.- Part II.-
  • 4: Promiscuous Teleology: From Childhood through Adulthood and from East to West, Deborah Kelemen.-
  • 5: Smart Gods are Easier than Dumb Gods: Revisiting the Preparedness Hypothesis, Tyler Greenway.-
  • 6: Ritual Imbalance in Contemporary China: A Ritual Form Theory Analysis, Brianna Bentley, et al.-
  • 7: Religion is Kid's Stuff: Minimally Counterintuitive Concepts are Better Remembered by Young People, Justin Gregory.-
  • 8: The Naturalness of Vitalistic Reasoning, Melanie Nyhof, Psychology.-
  • 9: What Happens After Death? Liqi Zhu.- Part III.-
  • 10: God Concepts in Pre-Qin Dynasty Texts, Ryan Nichols.-
  • 11: Player Reports of Spiritual Experiences in Chinese World of Warcraft, Ryan Hornbeck.-
  • 12: Religion and Wellbeing - A World Values Survey Analysis, Michael Bond and Vivan Lun.
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Are human tendencies toward religious and spiritual thoughts, feelings, and actions outcomes of "natural" cognition? This volume revisits the "naturalness theory of religious cognition" through discussion of new qualitative and quantitative studies examining the psychological foundations of religious and spiritual expression in historical and contemporary China. Naturalness theory has been challenged on the grounds that little of its supporting developmental and experimental research has drawn on participants from predominantly secular cultural environments. Given China's official secularity, its large proportion of atheists, and its alleged long history of dominant, nonreligious philosophies, can any broad claim for religion's psychological "naturalness" be plausible? Addressing this empirical gap, the studies discussed in this volume support core naturalness theory predictions for human reasoning about supernatural agency, intelligent design, the efficacy of rituals, and vitalistic causality. And yet each study elucidates, expands upon, or even challenges outright the logical assumptions of the naturalness theory. Written for a non-specialist audience, this volume introduces the naturalness theory and frames the significance of these new findings for students and scholars of cultural psychology, the psychology of religion, the anthropology of religion, and Chinese Studies.
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5. The naturalness of religious ideas : a cognitive theory of religion [1994]

Description
Book — 1 online resource (xv, 324 pages)
Summary
  • pt.
  • 1. Religious ideas as conceptual structures
  • Recurrence, naturalness, and under-determination
  • The varieties of religious representations
  • Two aspects of conceptual structures
  • pt.
  • 2. Four repertoires of religious representations
  • Natural ontologies and supernatural furniture
  • Causal judgments
  • Essentialism and social categories
  • Ritual episodes and religious assumptions
  • pt.
  • 3. A sketch of cultural transmission
  • Cross-strengthening, religious truth, and stability
  • Cultural transmission and the biology in history.
Why do people have religious ideas? And why thosereligious ideas? The main theme of Pascal Boyer's work is that important aspects of religious representations are constrained by universal properties of the human mind-brain. Experimental results from developmental psychology, he says, can explain why certain religious representations are more likely to be acquired, stored, and transmitted by human minds. Considering these universal constraints, Boyer proposes an exciting new answer to the question of why similar religious representations are found in so many different cultures. His work will be widely discussed by cultural anthropologists, psychologists, and students of religion, history, and philosophy.
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6. Hearing voices and other matters of the mind : what mental abnormalities can teach us about religions [2020]

Description
Book — 1 online resource
Summary
A man with schizophrenia believes that God is instructing him through the public address system in a bus station. A nun falls into a decades-long depression because she believes that God refuses to answer her prayers. A neighborhood parishioner is bedeviled with anxiety because he believes that a certain religious ritual must be repeated, repeated, and repeated lest God punish him. To what extent are such manifestations of religious thinking analogous to mental disorder? Does mental dysfunction bring an individual closer to religious experience or thought? Hearing Voices and Other Unusual Experiences explores these questions using the tools of the cognitive science of religion and the philosophy of psychopathology. Robert McCauley and George Graham emphasize underlying cognitive continuities between familiar features of religiosity, of mental disorders, and of everyday thinking and action. They contend that much religious thought and behavior can be explained as the cultural activation of our natural cognitive systems, which address matters that are essential to human survival: hazard precautions, agency detection, language processing, and theory of mind. Those systems produce responses to cultural stimuli that may mimic features of cognition and conduct associated with mental disorders, but which are sometimes coded as "religious" depending on the context. The authors examine hallucinations of the voice of God and of other supernatural agents, spiritual depression often described as a "dark night of the soul, " religious scrupulosity and compulsiveness, and challenges to theistic cognition that Autistic Spectrum Disorder poses. Their approach promises to shed light on both mental abnormalities and religiosity.
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7. Encyclopedia of sciences and religions [2013]

  • Dordrecht ; New York : SpringerReference, ©2013.
Description
Book — 1 online resource
Summary
  • A Priori/A Posteriori / Neil Spurway
  • Abhidhamma, Southern / Ven. Agganyani
  • Abhidharma, Northern / Kuala Lumpur Dhammajoti
  • Action Control / Giacomo Rizzolatti, Maria Alessandra Umiltà
  • Aesthetics (Philosophy) / Charles Taliaferro
  • Affective/Emotional Computing / Sidney D'Mello
  • Affordances / Harry Heft
  • African Psychotherapy / Augustine Nwoye
  • African Worldview / Augustine Nwoye
  • After-Metaphysical Theology / Ulrik Houlind Rasmussen
  • Agape / Per Sundman
  • Agency Detection / Matt Rosano
  • Aggression / Maren Strenziok, Frank Krueger, Jordan Grafman
  • Aging / Gisela Labouvie-Vief, Pierre-Yves Brandt
  • Aging and the Life Course, Sociology of / Duane F. Alwin
  • Aging, Psychology of / Susan H. McFadden
  • Agoral Gathering / Augustine Nwoye
  • Alchemy in Islam / Sébastien Moureau
  • Algebra in Islam / Jeffrey A. Oaks
  • Algorithm / Linda Sherrell
  • Algorithms, Computer / Vinhthuy Phan
  • Allah / Muhammad A.S. Abdel Haleem
  • Altruism / Lisa Goddard
  • Alzheimer's disease / Rudi D'Hooge, Detlef Balschun
  • Amnesia / Olavo B. Amaral
  • Anastenaria / Dimitris Xygalatas
  • Anatomy of the Brain / Arthur W. Toga
  • Anattā / Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Anatta: Non-self / Ven. Agganyani
  • Anesthesiology / Viji Kurup, Paul G. Barash
  • Anicca: Impermanence / Ven. Agganyani
  • Animal Theology and Ethics / Kurt Remele
  • Anthropic Principles / Neil Spurway
  • Anthropology in Islam / Zulfikar Hirji DPhil (Oxford)
  • Anthropomorphism / Stewart Elliott Guthrie
  • Apocalypticism / Robert M. Geraci
  • Apophatic and Cataphatic / Catharina Stenqvist
  • Applied Mathematics (Mathematical Physics, Discrete Mathematics, Operations Research) / Luis Vázquez
  • Apraxias / F. Binkofski
  • Architecture in Islam / Mohammad al-Asad
  • Arithmetic in Islam / Jeffrey A. Oaks
  • Arrow of Time / Russell Stannard
  • Art, Studio / Deborah Sokolove
  • Artificial Immune Systems / Dipankar Dasgupta.
  • Artificial Intelligence, General / Stan Franklin
  • Artificial Neural Network / Gómez González Daniel
  • Astrology / Nicholas Campion
  • Astrology in Islam / Godefroid de Callataÿ
  • Astronomy / Kenneth R. Lang
  • Astronomy in Judaism / Norbert M. Samuelson
  • Astronomy in Islam / Robert G. Morrison
  • Astrophysics / Kenneth R. Lang
  • ATP / Stanley N. Salthe
  • Attachment: Theory and Patterns / Pehr Granqvist
  • Attention / Anna C. Nobre, Mark G. Stokes
  • Attribution/Attribution Theory / Bertram F. Malle
  • Attributional Theory of Religion / Jakub Cigán
  • Autism / Simon Baron-Cohen
  • Automation, Electronic / Alberto Delgado
  • Autonomic Nervous System / Max J. Hilz
  • Awakening / Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Basal Ganglia / Jörg-Peter Ewert
  • Basic Programming Concepts / Linda Sherrell
  • Behavior Settings / Harry Heft
  • Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology / Kevin S. Masters
  • Biases and Heuristics / Jason S. Nomi, Anthony J. Ryals, Anne M. Cleary
  • Bible as Literature / Steven Marx
  • Biblical Studies / Gregory Allen Robbins
  • Bioethics in Christianity / Edwin C. Hui
  • Bioethics in Islam / Thomas Eich
  • Bioethics in Judaism / Norbert M. Samuelson
  • Bioinformatics, Computational / Fernando Nino
  • Biological Anthropology and Human Ethology / Jay R. Feierman
  • Biological Psychology / Rudi D'Hooge, Detlef Balschun
  • Biology / Sungchul Ji
  • Biology of Aesthetics / Bjørn Grinde
  • Biology of Religion / Jay R. Feierman*
  • Biology, Theoretical / Michal Kurzynski
  • Biome / Stanley N. Salthe
  • Biopsychosocial Model / Kevin S. Masters
  • Biosemiotics / Hoffmeyer Jesper
  • Black Holes / Russell Stannard
  • Blindsight / Petra Stoerig
  • Bodhisattva Ideal / Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Body / Jennifer L. Baldwin
  • Brain Death / Rüdiger J. Seitz
  • Brains, Artificial and Computational / Hugo de Garis
  • Broaden-and-Build / Sarah A. Schnitker, Robert A. Emmons
  • Buddha (Historical) / Vishvapani Blomfield.
  • Buddhism in the West / Jørn Borup
  • Buddhist Canonical Literature / Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Buddhist Meditation Practices / Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Caliphate / Eric Ormsby
  • Caloric Tests / Pedro L. Mangabeira Albernaz
  • cAMP and Memory / Jörg-Peter Ewert
  • Canonical Neurons / Giacomo Rizzolatti, Maria Alessandra Umiltà
  • Cardiology / Marc W. Merx, Malte Kelm
  • Cartesian Conception of the Mind / Karsten R. Stueber
  • Categorical Imperative / Sandra Lee Dixon
  • Catholic Church and Science / Job Kozhamthadam
  • Catholic Sociology / Joseph A. Varacalli
  • Causality in Physics / John R. Albright
  • Cerebrovascular Diseases / M.G. Hennerici
  • Chan / Steffen Döll
  • Chemical Thermodynamics / Dilip Kondepudi
  • Child Surgery / Dietrich von Schweinitz,
  • Chiliastic / Hans Schwarz
  • Christian Cosmology / Anna Ijjas
  • Christian Ethics / Kevin Jung
  • Christian Existentialism / Pia Søltoft
  • Christian Healing Cultures / Florian Mildenberger
  • Christianity / Lluis Oviedo
  • Classical and Quantum Realism / Jens Hebor
  • Classics / Deborah Vause
  • Clinical Neurophysiology / Paolo M. Rossini
  • Clinical Psychology / Patrick Luyten
  • Clock Gene / Jörg-Peter Ewert
  • Cognitive Psychology / Jason S. Nomi, Anthony J. Ryals, Anne M. Cleary
  • Cognitive Science / Gregory Peterson
  • Cognitive Science of Religion / Justin L. Barrett
  • Cognitive Science Psychology / Justin L. Barrett
  • Cognitive Therapy (CT) / Jason Slone
  • Coherentism / James O. Young
  • Collective Behavior / Emanuela C. Del Re
  • Combinatorial Explosion / Linda Sherrell
  • Combinatorics / Linda Sherrell
  • Commodification of Religion / Alexander Darius Ornella
  • Comparative Neuroscience / Friedrich G. Barth
  • Competitive Coherence / Victor Norris
  • Completeness / Xavier Caicedo
  • Complex Systems / Klaus Mainzer
  • Computational Complexity / Gómez González Daniel
  • Computational Memories / Andrew J. Neel, Max H. Garzon
  • Computer Language / Nathan Koenig.
  • Computer Science in Human Learning / Linda Sherrell
  • Concept of God in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion / Karin Johannesson
  • Condensed Matter Physics / Minko Balkanski
  • Conditioning Classical and Instrumental / Michael Domjan
  • Conditioning and Learning / Michael Domjan
  • Conformon / Sungchul Ji
  • Consciousness (Buddhist) / Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Consciousness, the Problem of / Harald Walach
  • Constructive Theology / Joerg Rieger
  • Constructivism (Philosophy of Mind) / Dominikus Kraschl
  • Constructivism in Buddhism / Werner Vogd
  • Contemplative / Andrea Hollingsworth
  • Control Theory (Cybernetics) / Matilde Santos
  • Conversation Analysis / Angela Cora Garcia
  • Conversion / Jakub Cigán
  • Cooperative Game Theory / Gómez González Daniel
  • Coping / Carolyn M. Aldwin, Michael R. Levenson
  • Coping, Psychology of / Carolyn M. Aldwin, Michael R. Levenson
  • Correspondence Hypothesis / Pehr Granqvist
  • Cosmology / Kenneth R. Lang
  • Cosmos / Norbert M. Samuelson
  • Counseling Psychology USA/Europe / Andrea G. Gurney
  • Creation in Judaism / Norbert M. Samuelson
  • Creationism / Gregory W. Dawes
  • Creative Writing / Erik Raschke
  • Creator -- Co-creator / Barbara Ann Strassberg
  • Credition, the Process of Belief / Hans-Ferdinand Angel
  • Criminology / Patricia E. Erickson
  • Criteriologic Problem / Olof Franck
  • Critical and Cultural Theory / Eduardo Maura
  • Critical Realism in Theology and Science / Kees van Kooten Niekerk
  • Critical Theory / Olli-Pekka Moisio
  • Critical Thinking / Sharon L. Coggan
  • Cross-Cultural Psychology / Walter J. Lonner
  • Culture Industry / Eduardo Maura
  • Cyberethics / Herman T. Tavani
  • Cyborgs / Kevin Warwick
  • Da Vinci Code / Carl Raschke
  • Daoism / Friederike Assandri
  • Dark Energy / Russell Stannard
  • Das Heilige, Concept of / Olli-Pekka Moisio
  • Data Structure / Linda Sherrell
  • Death / Jay R. Feierman, Lluis Oviedo
  • Deep Brain Stimulation / T.M. Kinfe, Jan Vesper.
  • Deism / José M. Lozano-Gotor
  • Dementia / Katharina Fink, Rainer Hellweg
  • Demonstration on the Basis of Two Terms / Carmela Baffioni
  • Deontology / Joakim Sandberg
  • Dependent Arising / Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Depression / Joachim Cordes
  • Depressive Episode / Joachim Cordes
  • Determinism and Indeterminism / Anders Kraal
  • Deterministic and Nondeterministic Turing Machine / Gómez González Daniel
  • Developmental Psychology / Richard M. Lerner, Jacqueline V. Lerner
  • Deviance and Social Control, Sociology of / Stuart Henry
  • Dhamma/Dharma / Ven. Agganyani
  • Dialectic / Eduardo Maura
  • Direct Perception / Harry Heft
  • Discernment / Carolyn M. Aldwin, Michael R. Levenson
  • Divine Action / José M. Lozano-Gotor
  • Divine Creativity / Gloria L. Schaab
  • Divine Motivation Theory / Linda Zagzebski
  • Dualism / Roger Trigg
  • Dukkha / Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Dukkha: Suffering / Ven. Agganyani
  • Dynamical System / Achim Stephan
  • Eastern Orthodox Christianity and the Sciences / Christopher C. Knight
  • Ecclesiology / Sven-Erik Brodd
  • Ecological Optics / Harry Heft
  • Ecological Psychology / Harry Heft
  • Ecology in Islam / Richard Foltz
  • Ecology in Judaism / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
  • Economic Sociology / David Reisman
  • Education in Buddhism / Gisella Full
  • Education, Sociology of / Carmine Matarazzo
  • EEG (Electroencephalogram) / Heiko J. Luhmann
  • Eight Fold Path / Dustin Byrd
  • Electromagnetism and Optics / Stoyan Tanev
  • Electromyography / Reinhard Dengler
  • Electroneurography / Christian Bischoff
  • Electronic Circuits in Computers / Alberto Delgado,
  • Embodied Theology / Johanne Stubbe Teglbjærg
  • Emergence, Theories of / Achim Stephan
  • Emotion / Jacek Dębiec, Joseph E. LeDoux
  • Empathy / Karsten R. Stueber
  • Empiricism / Carl Raschke
  • Endocrinology / Werner-Alfons Scherbaum
  • Energy in Physics / Stoyan Tanev
  • Enlightenment / Sharon L. Coggan
  • Entelechy / Achim Stephan.
  • Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA) / Matt Rosano
  • Environmental Ethics / Christopher J. Preston
  • Environmental Theology / Sigurd Bergmann
  • Epistemology / J. Michael Spector
  • Epistemology, Evolutionary / Neil Spurway
  • Epistemology, Reformed / Anders Kraal
  • Equality / Philip P. Taylor
  • Eschatology / Gaetano Iaia
  • Esotericism or Esoterism / Catharina Stenqvist
  • Ethics / Sandra Lee Dixon
  • Ethics/Moral Theology, Roman-Catholic, Europe / Walter Schaupp
  • Ethnology / Pia Karlsson Minganti
  • Ethnomathematics / Clara H. Sánchez, Víctor Albis
  • European Studies / Christian Danz
  • Evil, Problem of / Thomas Anderberg
  • Evoked and Event-Related Potentials / Alberto Zani
  • Evolution / Stanley N. Salthe
  • Evolution, Convergent / Stanley N. Salthe
  • Evolutionary Prototyping / Linda Sherrell
  • Evolutionary Psychology / Matt Rosano
  • Evolutionary Theology / Niels Henrik Gregersen
  • Exaptation / Matt Rosano
  • Existentialism / Jari Ristiniemi
  • Experience / Harald Walach
  • Experimental Philosophy / Bryony Pierce
  • Externalism and Internalism / John A. Teske
  • Faith and Belief / Taede A. Smedes
  • Fallacy / Gonzalo Serrano, Clara H. Sánchez
  • Falsifiability / René Rosfort
  • Feminism in Judaism / Melissa Raphael
  • Feminism in Islam / Miriam Cooke
  • Feminist Philosophy of Religion / Erica Appelros
  • Fire-Walking / Dimitris Xygalatas
  • Firewall / Andrew J. Neel
  • First Order / Xavier Caicedo
  • Five Pillars / Dustin Byrd
  • Fixed Action Pattern / Jörg-Peter Ewert
  • Folk Physics / René Rosfort
  • Folk Psychology / René Rosfort
  • Forensic Medicine / Jason Payne-James
  • Forensic Psychology / David F. Ross [and others]
  • Formal Logic / Gonzalo Serrano, Clara H. Sánchez
  • Four Noble Truths / Dustin Byrd
  • Frankfurt School / Jill Dierberg, Lynn Schofield Clark
  • Free Will / Atle Ottesen Søvik
  • Freedom / Aku Visala
  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) / Robert Turner.
  • Functional System / T.M. Kinfe, Jan Vesper, Rüdiger J. Seitz
  • Functionalism / José M. Lozano-Gotor
  • Functionalism in Sociology / Paolo De Nardis
  • Fundamental Theology / Paul L. Allen
  • Fundamentalism / Catharina Stenqvist, Anne L.C. Runehov
  • Game Theory / Conrado Manuel
  • Games, Computer / Evan Drumwright
  • Gene / Rudi D'Hooge, Detlef Balschun
  • Gene Flow / Saverio Forestiero
  • Geography in Islam / James E. Montgomery
  • Geometry in Islam / Jeffrey A. Oaks
  • Geriatrics / Herbert F. Durwen
  • Gifford Lectures / Neil Spurway
  • Glia / Randolph J. Nudo
  • Global Christianity / Jonas Adelin Jørgensen
  • Globalization, Sociology of / Francesco Del Pizzo
  • Gnosticism / Carl Raschke
  • Goal Programming / M. Teresa Ortuño
  • God and Devil in Buddhism / Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • God of the Gaps / John R. Albright
  • Golem / Robert M. Geraci
  • Good Clinical and Good Laboratory Practice (GCP) / Christian Lange-Asschenfeldt
  • Grace / Lluis Oviedo
  • Graph Theory / Gómez González Daniel
  • Graphs / Gómez González Daniel
  • Gravity: From Classical to Quantum / Roumen Borissov
  • Gross Body Language / Sidney D'Mello
  • Hadith / Dustin Byrd
  • Happiness / Lluis Oviedo
  • Hegel's Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis Model / Sarah A. Schnitker, Robert A. Emmons
  • Hegemony / Jill Dierberg, Lynn Schofield Clark
  • Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle / Russell Stannard
  • Hellenization / Carl Raschke
  • Hermeneutics and Hermeneutic Philosophy / Karsten R. Stueber
  • Hermeneutics, Theological / Frederiek Depoortere
  • Hierarchy / Stanley N. Salthe
  • Hindrances (Buddhist) / Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Hinduist Anthropology / Marianne C. Qvortrup Fibiger
  • Histology, Cytology / Chris Murphy
  • Historical Theology / Gaetano Iaia
  • Historiography (Classical) / Martin Ebner
  • History of Ideas (Intellectual History) / Colbey Emmerson Reid
  • History of Medicine / Gary B. Ferngren
  • Holism / Silvana Procacci
  • Hominins / Matt Rosano
  • Hope (Life After Death) / Rope Kojonen.
  • Hope, Theology of / Hans Schwarz
  • Hope-Healing Communities / Augustine Nwoye
  • Hopi Religion and Anthropology / Armin W. Geertz
  • Hormesis / Carolyn M. Aldwin, Michael R. Levenson
  • Humanism in Islam / Lenn E. Goodman
  • Humanistic Movement/Values / Sarah A. Schnitker, Robert A. Emmons
  • Humanities / Carl Raschke
  • Hyperstructures / Victor Norris
  • Hypnosis / Dr Quinton Deeley
  • Identity (Philosophy of Mind) / Gregory Peterson
  • Ihsan / Rabie E. Abdel-Halim
  • Imagination / Lars Sandbeck
  • Imago Dei / Jan-Olav Henriksen
  • Impermanence (Buddhist) / Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • In Vitro Fertilization, Stem Cell Research and Ethics / Eve Herold
  • Incarnation / Aku Visala
  • Inference of Analogy / Karsten R. Stueber
  • Information Security / Andrew J. Neel
  • Information-Processing Models (Philosophy of Mind) / Gregory Peterson
  • Innate Releasing Mechanism, IRM / Jörg-Peter Ewert
  • Inspection / Linda Sherrell
  • Installation Art / Deborah Sokolove
  • Instrumental Reason / Eduardo Maura
  • Intelligence / Samaneh Pourjalali, James C. Kaufman
  • Intelligence, Swarm / Xiaohui Cui
  • Intelligences, Multiple / Seth Wax, Howard Gardner
  • Intelligent Design / Jakob Wolf
  • Intentionality / Bertram F. Malle
  • Interreligious Studies / Paul Hedges
  • Islam: An Overview / Ismail K. Poonawala
  • Islamic Religious Psychology / Amber Haque
  • Jewish Renewal Movement / Melissa Raphael
  • Judaic Studies / Frederick E. Greenspahn
  • Judaism / Leonard Levin
  • Judaism: An Overview / Norbert M. Samuelson
  • Jungian Psychology / Carl Raschke
  • Justice (Philosophically) / Michael Fuerstein
  • Kabbalah in Judaism / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
  • Kamma/Karma / Ven. Agganyani
  • Karma (Buddhist) / Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Key Stimulus / Jörg-Peter Ewert
  • Knowledge, Sociology of / E. Doyle McCarthy
  • Koch's Postulates / Li Yang Hsu
  • Landscape / Jesper Østergaard
  • Language and Literature, French / Reginald McGinnis
  • Language and Literature, German / Franz M. Eybl.
  • Language and Literature, Hebrew / Yaffa Weisman
  • Language and Literature, Spanish / Michelle M. Hamilton
  • Languages and Literature, Africa / Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe
  • Lateral Inhibition / Jörg-Peter Ewert
  • Latino Studies / Luis Leon
  • Learning / Eichenbaum Howard
  • Liberal Theology / Olli-Pekka Moisio
  • Liberation, Theology of / Edmund Arens
  • Life Course, life cycle, life history, life span and life stage / Duane F. Alwin
  • Limbic System / Jörg-Peter Ewert
  • Liminality / Augustine Nwoye
  • Logic in Buddhism / Karim Fathi
  • Logic in Islam / Carmela Baffioni
  • Logic, Informal / Gonzalo Serrano, Clara H. Sánchez
  • Logic, Predicate / Miguel Palomino
  • Logos / Andrea Hollingsworth
  • Love (Affective, Sexual) / Roland Karo
  • Love (Alterity, Relationship) / Cristobal Solares
  • Magic / Sørensen Jesper
  • Magnetoencephalography (MEG) / Joachim Gross
  • Mahāyāna Buddhism/Vajrayāna Buddhism / Karim Fathi
  • Markov Process / Gómez González Daniel
  • Materialism / René Rosfort
  • Mathematics in Islam General / Jeffrey A. Oaks
  • Mathematics in Judaism / Ilana Wartenberg
  • Mathematics and Religion / Javier Leach
  • Mathematics in Human Learning / Inés Ma Gómez-Chacón
  • Mathematics in Latin America, History / Clara H. Sánchez, Víctor Albis
  • Mathematics, Ancient and Medieval / Javier Leach
  • Mathematics, Early / Javier Leach
  • Mathematics, Formal and Contemporary / Javier Leach
  • Mathematics, Modern / Javier Leach
  • Maya Religion / John J. McGraw
  • Meaning, the Concept of / Anders Kraal
  • Meaning-System Analysis / Jakub Cigán
  • Mechanico-materialism / Carl Raschke
  • Mechanics / Nikola Petrov
  • Media Studies / Jill Dierberg, Lynn Schofield Clark
  • Mediatic Societies, Theology in / Alexander Darius Ornella
  • Medical Genetics / Harald Rieder
  • Medical Microbiology / Li Yang Hsu
  • Medical Sociology / Johannes Siegrist
  • Medicine in Islam / Rabie E. Abdel-Halim
  • Meditation-Research / Ulrich Ott, Britta Hölzel.
  • Memory / Hans J. Markowitsch
  • Memory, Types of / Eichenbaum Howard
  • Messiah / Michael C. Hilton
  • Messianic Judaism / Richard Harvey
  • Meta-heuristics / M. Teresa Ortuño
  • Metaphysics / Carl Raschke
  • Metaphysics, Darwinian / Momme von Sydow
  • Methodology in Psychology / Ralph W. Hood Jr.
  • Mind Uploading / Robert M. Geraci
  • Mindfulness (Buddhist) / Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Minimalism / Deborah Sokolove
  • Mirror Neuron System / Giovanni Buccino
  • Model / Anne L.C. Runehov
  • Model Theory / Xavier Caicedo
  • Modernity in Buddhism and in Islam / Dustin Byrd
  • Molecular Modeling / Ricard Casadesús
  • Molecular Neuroscience / Carsten Korth
  • Monism / Iveta Leitane
  • Monotheism / Iveta Leitane
  • Moore's Law / Robert M. Geraci
  • Movement Disorders / Lars Wojtecki, Alfons Schnitzler
  • M-Theory / Russell Stannard
  • Muhammad, Prophet / Gurdofarid Miskinzoda
  • Multi-criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) / M. Teresa Ortuño
  • Music in Islam / Sawa D. George
  • Mutakallimun / Victoria Ziva Frappollo
  • Mystical and Religious Experience / Catharina Stenqvist
  • Mysticism / Catharina Stenqvist
  • Mysticism in Islam / Richard J. McGregor
  • Myth / Angela Ales Bello
  • Myths / Gregory Allen Robbins
  • Nag Hammadi Library / Carl Raschke
  • Names of God / Dan Cohn-Sherbok
  • Narrative Psychology / Ulrike Popp-Baier
  • Native American Religions / John J. McGraw
  • Native American Studies / Soch Patrick
  • Natural Language Processing / Vasile Rus
  • Natural Sciences in Judaism / Norman Solomon
  • Natural Selection / Saverio Forestiero
  • Natural Theology / Peter Barrett
  • Naturalism, Ontological and Methodological / René Rosfort
  • Near-Death Experiences / Michael N. Marsh
  • Negative Theology / William Franke, Chance Brandon Woods
  • Neglect / Giuseppe Vallar, Nadia Bolognini
  • Neoplatonism / Victoria Ziva Frappollo
  • Neopragmatism / Sami Pihlström
  • Neuroethics / Kathinka Evers.
  • Neuroethology / Jörg-Peter Ewert
  • Neuroimaging / Rüdiger J. Seitz
  • Neuroimaging Technologies / Rüdiger Kummer von [and others]
  • Neurology in Asia / Peter Qi Bi, Hua Zhang, Ying Li
  • Neurology in Europe / Rüdiger J. Seitz
  • Neuromodulation / Wilhelm E. Eisner
  • Neuron / Randolph J. Nudo
  • Neuropathology / Herbert Budka
  • Neurophysiology / Heiko J. Luhmann
  • Neuropsychology / Steven A. Rogers, Deborah A. Lowe
  • Neuroradiology / Rüdiger von Kummer
  • Neurosurgery / Wilhelm E. Eisner
  • Neurotheology / Andrew Newberg
  • Neurotology / Pedro L. Mangabeira Albernaz
  • Neurotransplantation / Wilhelm E. Eisner
  • New Age Religions / Justin E. Lane
  • Nondualism / Karim Fathi
  • Non-duality / Carolyn M. Aldwin, Michael R. Levenson
  • Nonreductive Physicalism / Nancey Murphy
  • Numinous/Numinosity / Sharon L. Coggan
  • Nuptial-Marian Ecclesiology / Andrea Hollingsworth
  • Nyāya / Karim Fathi
  • Nystagmography / Pedro L. Mangabeira Albernaz
  • Objectivity in the Human Sciences / Sharon Rider
  • Object-Oriented (OO) Programming / Linda Sherrell
  • Obstetrics / James Drife
  • Occupational Therapy / Leeanne Carey, Carolyn Baum
  • Oculomotor Control / Frank Bremmer
  • Online Religion / Christopher Helland
  • Ontic Evil(or Physical, Nonmoral, or Premoral Evil) / Nadia Delicata
  • Ontological Arguments / Anders Kraal
  • Ontology / Anders Kraal
  • Operations Research in Applied Mathematics / M. Teresa Ortuño
  • Optics in Islam / Nader El-Bizri
  • Organizational Behavior / Peter C. Hill
  • Orthodox Theology / Svetoslav Ribolov
  • Orthodoxy / Carl Raschke
  • Pain (Suffering) / Christopher Southgate
  • Pain Medicine / Min Zhuo
  • Pan-Buddhist Core Themes/Terms Relevant for Buddhist Psychology / G.T. Maurits Kwee
  • Panentheism / Marie Vejrup Nielsen
  • Pan-Indian Movement / Soch Patrick
  • Pan-Indianism / John J. McGraw
  • Pāramitā / Toshiichi Endo
  • Particle Physics / Eugenio Del Nobile, Michele Cascella.
  • Passion and Emotion, Theories of / Charles Taliaferro
  • Pastoral Theology, Roman-Catholic, Europe / Norbert Mette
  • Pavlovian Conditioning / Michael Domjan
  • PBUH (an Abbreviation) / Rabie E. Abdel-Halim
  • Pediatric Gastroenterology / Alfredo Guarino, John Walker-Smith
  • Pentecostalism / Jan-Åke Alvarsson
  • Perception / E. Bruce Goldstein
  • Perceptual Systems, Gibsonian / Harry Heft
  • Performance Art / Deborah Sokolove
  • Perinatal / Neil Spurway
  • Personalism / Jan Olof Bengtsson
  • Personality Psychology / Dan P. McAdams
  • Personhood and Scientific Methodology / René Rosfort
  • Phenomenology / Charles Taliaferro
  • Phenomenology of Religion / Jakub Cigán
  • Philosophical Anthropology / Paul Gilbert
  • Philosophical Naturalism / Gregory Peterson
  • Philosophy in Islam / Nader El-Bizri
  • Philosophy in Judaism / Victoria Ziva Frappollo
  • Philosophy of Language / Ivan Colagè
  • Philosophy of Mind / Gregory Peterson
  • Philosophy of Religion / Catharina Stenqvist, Anne L.C. Runehov
  • Philosophy of Science / Arthur Cunningham
  • Physical Anthropology (Paleoanthropology) / Crevecoeur Isabelle, Marie Claire Van Dyck
  • Physicalism / Roger Trigg
  • Physics / John R. Albright
  • Physics in Buddhism / William L. Ames*
  • Physics in Catholicism / Philippe Gagnon
  • Physics in Christianity / Alexei Nesteruk
  • Physics in Judaism / David W. Nelson
  • Physics and Orthodoxy (Physics and Eastern Christian Theology) / Archbishop Lazar Puhalo
  • Physics in Protestantism / Carl Raschke
  • Physics, Science in Islam / Pervez Hoodbhoy
  • Physiotherapy / Thomes Platz
  • Pilgrimage / Jesper Østergaard
  • Planck Length / Russell Stannard
  • Planck Time / Russell Stannard
  • Plasticity / Randolph J. Nudo
  • Plot / Ulrike Popp-Baier
  • Pluralism (Religious) / Willy Pfändtner
  • Poetry / Christina Mengert
  • Political Theology, Theological Politics / Thomas Ekstrand.
  • Political Theory / Philip P. Taylor
  • Polytheism / Iveta Leitane
  • Popular Culture and the Mass Media, Sociology of / Michele Sorice
  • Positive Psychology / Sarah A. Schnitker, Robert A. Emmons
  • Positivism/Neopositivism / Karim Fathi
  • Posthuman Condition / Michele Farisco
  • Postliberal Theology / Mattias Martinson
  • Practical Theology / Bent Flemming Nielsen
  • Pragmatism (Theological Interpretations) / Kenneth Nordgren
  • Pragmatism on Religion and Science / Ulf Zackariasson
  • Prion / Li Yang Hsu
  • Prions and Memory / Jörg-Peter Ewert
  • Prismatic Theology / Carol S. Wimmer
  • Probability and Statistics / Victoria López
  • Process Theology / Darren Iammarino
  • Progressive Judaism / Daniel R. Langton
  • Protestant Reformation / Carl Raschke
  • Psychiatry in America / Ethel S. Person
  • Psychiatry in Europe / Oliver Gruber
  • Psychoanalysis/Depth Psychology / Jozef Corveleyn, Patrick Luyten
  • Psychobiography / Jacob A. Belzen
  • Psychohistory / Jacob A. Belzen
  • Psycholinguistics / Trevor A. Harley
  • Psychology in Buddhism / G.T. Maurits Kwee
  • Psychology in Judaism / Norbert M. Samuelson
  • Psychology of Religion / Raymond F. Paloutzian
  • Psychology of Religion China/Asia / Yongsheng Chen, Yiqing Wang
  • Psychotherapy in Africa / Augustine Nwoye
  • Pulmonary / F. Dennis McCool
  • Qualia / Gregory Peterson
  • Quantum Chemistry / Ricard Casadesús
  • Quantum Computing / Mika Hirvensalo
  • Quantum Theory / Dewdney Christopher
  • Quantum Theory, Generalized / Nikolaus von Stillfried
  • Quarks / John R. Albright
  • Queer Theology / Alexander Darius Ornella
  • Qur'an / Toby Mayer
  • Radical Orthodoxy / Mattias Martinson
  • Randomized Controlled Trial / Kevin S. Masters
  • Rationality (Philosophical) / Charles Taliaferro
  • Reafference Principle / Jörg-Peter Ewert
  • Realisms in Philosophy of Religion / Eberhard Herrmann
  • Reality in Buddhism / Klaus-Dieter Mathes.
  • Recovery / Steven Cramer
  • Recursion / Linda Sherrell
  • Redemption in Judaism / Norbert M. Samuelson
  • Reductionism / John R. Albright, Anne L.C. Runehov
  • Relational Ontology / Gloria L. Schaab
  • Relations in Buddhism / Ven. Agganyani
  • Relativity / Russell Stannard
  • Religion and Pseudoscience / Sven Ove Hansson
  • Religion, History of / Christa Shusko
  • Religion, Sociology of / Roberto Cipriani
  • Religion, Theory of / Victor E. Taylor
  • Religionswissenschaft / Carl Raschke
  • Religiosity / Hans-Ferdinand Angel
  • Religious Coping / Carolyn M. Aldwin, Michael R. Levenson
  • Religious Education Theory, Roman-Catholic, Southern Europe / Ulrich Hemel
  • Religious Education, Protestant / William H. Jeynes
  • Religious Experiences / Anne L.C. Runehov
  • Religious Studies / Sharon L. Coggan
  • Religious/Spiritual Marketplace / Alexander Darius Ornella
  • Revealed Knowledge / Carl Raschke
  • Revelation / Mark Sluys
  • Revelation in Judaism / Norbert M. Samuelson
  • Risk Analysis / Linda Sherrell
  • Ritual / Maria Liljas Stålhandske
  • Robot Emotions / Kolja Kühnlenz
  • Robot Programming / Nathan Koenig
  • Robotics and Religion / Robert M. Geraci
  • Robot Societies / Klaus Mainzer
  • Romantic / Roland Karo
  • Sacrament / Andrea Hollingsworth
  • Schizophrenia / Christian Lange-Asschenfeldt
  • Science and Kabbalah / Brian Les Lancaster
  • Science and Religion Dialogue and the Interreligious Dialogue / Viggo Mortensen
  • Science and Scientific Knowledge, Sociology of / Charles Thorpe
  • Science in Buddhism / Jason Slone
  • Science in Islam, Classification / Godefroid de Callataÿ
  • Science in Islam, Transmission / Godefroid de Callataÿ
  • Scientism / Mikael Stenmark
  • Scientist-Practitioner / Kevin S. Masters
  • Second Law of Thermodynamics / Russell Stannard
  • Secular / Leonard Levin
  • Secularism in Judaism / Leonard Levin
  • Secularization, Secularity, Secularism / Hans Raun Iversen.
  • Selection Pressures / Matt Rosano
  • Self / Olli-Pekka Vainio
  • Self Organization / Richard M. Lerner, Jacqueline V. Lerner
  • Self, From a Psychological Perspective / Alex Gillespie
  • Self-Actualization / Sarah A. Schnitker, Robert A. Emmons
  • Semantics / Dennis Bielfeldt
  • Semiotics / Andrew Robinson
  • Sense-Datum Theory, The / Catharina Stenqvist, Anne L.C. Runehov
  • Sensory Cortex / Neil Spurway
  • Sex and Gender / Giuseppina Ianniello
  • Sex Drive, The / Roland Karo
  • Simulation Theory / Henrik Bohlin
  • Simulators / Nathan Koenig
  • Sin (Vice, Human Limits, Negativity) / Jay R. Feierman
  • Singularity / Robert M. Geraci
  • Skinner Box / Jörg-Peter Ewert
  • Sleep Medicine / Geert Mayer
  • SLI / Trevor A. Harley
  • Social Construction in Psychology / Kenneth J. Gergen
  • Social Interaction Explanations / Patricia E. Erickson
  • Social Neuroscience / Kai Vogeley
  • Social Psychology / Brian R. Uldall
  • Software Engineering / Linda Sherrell
  • Soul / Paul L. Allen
  • Space / Russell Stannard
  • Space and Time / Arthur Cunningham
  • Spandrel / Matt Rosano
  • Speech / Kenneth Hugdahl
  • Spirituality, African / Augustine Nwoye
  • Spirituality and Christian Theology / Andrea Hollingsworth
  • Split-Brain Research / Steven A. Rogers, Deborah A. Lowe
  • Sport, Sociology of / Joseph Maguire
  • Stereotactic Surgery / Wilhelm E. Eisner
  • Stress / Carolyn M. Aldwin, Michael R. Levenson
  • String Theory / Russell Stannard
  • Supervenience / Gregory Peterson
  • Surgery / F. Catena
  • Synapse / Neil Spurway
  • Systematic Theology / Jan-Olav Henriksen
  • Systems Approach / Kevin S. Masters
  • Systems Theory / Nancey Murphy
  • Tawhid / Rabie E. Abdel-Halim
  • Technonature and Theology / Anne Kull
  • Theater / Donnalee Dox
  • Theism, Classical / Anders Kraal
  • Theistic Naturalism / Christopher C. Knight
  • Theological Anthropology / Lluis Oviedo.
  • Theology / Katarina Westerlund
  • Theology in Judaism / Norbert M. Samuelson
  • Theology in Islam / Timothy J. Winter
  • Theoretical Psychology / Henderikus J. Stam
  • Theory of Mind / Anne L.C. Runehov
  • Theory of Relativity, The / Russell Stannard
  • Theravada Buddhism / Karim Fathi
  • Thorn of Alterity / Alexander Darius Ornella
  • Time / Russell Stannard
  • Time Reversal Invariance / Russell Stannard
  • Torah / Norbert M. Samuelson
  • Transcendence and Immanence / Iveta Leitane
  • Transcendental Sense of Physics / Alexei Nesteruk
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation / Ulf Ziemann
  • Transfusion Medicine / Morris Aaron Blajchman
  • Transpersonal Studies / Glenn Hartelius, Harris Friedman, Adrian Andreescu
  • Time Reversal Invariance / Russell Stannard
  • Torah / Norbert M. Samuelson
  • Transcendence and Immanence / Iveta Leitane
  • Transcendental Sense of Physics / Alexei Nesteruk
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation / Ulf Ziemann
  • Transfusion Medicine / Morris Aaron Blajchman
  • Transpersonal Studies / Glenn Hartelius, Harris Friedman, Adrian Andreescu
  • Truth / Anders Kraal
  • Truths, Four Noble / Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Typologies in Science and Religion / Mikael Stenmark
  • Ubuntu / Augustine Nwoye
  • UFO Cults / Justin E. Lane
  • Upper Paleolithic / Matt Rosano
  • Urology / Rüdiger Heicappell
  • Utilitarianism / Joakim Sandberg
  • Violence / Nadia Delicata
  • Vipassanā / Ven. Agganyani
  • Virtual Particles / Russell Stannard
  • Virtue / Olli-Pekka Vainio
  • Virtue Ethics / Carl Raschke, Joshua Ramos
  • Voluntary Movement / Giacomo Rizzolatti, Maria Alessandra Umiltà
  • Walkthrough / Linda Sherrell
  • Waterfall Model / Linda Sherrell
  • Western Psychotherapy / Augustine Nwoye
  • Wisdom (Philosophically) / Charles Taliaferro
  • Women in Buddhism / Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • World Health Organization International / Leeanne Carey, Carolyn Baum.
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8. The psychology of religious knowing [1988]

Description
Book — x, 169 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary
  • Acknowledgements--
  • 1. Introduction--
  • 2. Psychological research on religion--
  • 3. Psychoanalytic approaches to relgious experience--
  • 4. Faith and knowledge--
  • 5. Analogues of religious knowing--
  • 6. Emotional regulation and relgious attentivness--
  • 7. Self knowledge and knowledge of God--
  • 8. The interpretation of experience in prayer--
  • 9. Concepts of God--
  • 10. Recapitulation-- Notes-- Index.
  • (source: Nielsen Book Data)
The book seeks to describe the psychological processes that are involved in arriving at religious knowledge. The view that direct knowledge is impossible in the religious domain, only 'faith' possible, is rejected. It is argued that the ways in which people come to know other things, in particular how people arrive at personal insights, is close at many points to how they arrive at religious insights. The psychological processes involved in religious knowing are described in the terminology of contemporary cognitive psychology.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
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9. Radical interpretation in religion [2002]

  • Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Description
Book — 1 online resource (xvi, 231 pages)
Summary
  • Part I. Pragmatics:
  • 1. Introduction to Part I--
  • 2. Saving belief: on the new materialism in religious studies Terry F. Godlove Jr--
  • 3. Radical interpretation and pragmatism: Davidson, Rorty, and Brandom on truth Jeffrey Stout--
  • 4. Cultural politics and the question of the existence of God Richard Rorty--
  • 5. Religion and naturalism Wayne L. Proudfoot-- Part II. Culture and Cognition:
  • 6. Introduction to Part II--
  • 7. 'The Chinese believe in spirits': belief and believing in the study of religion Catherine M. Bell--
  • 8. On interpreting the world religiously E. Thomas Lawson--
  • 9. Are religious beliefs counter-intuitive? Maurice Bloch-- Part III. Semantics:
  • 10. Introduction to Part III--
  • 11. You don't read a myth for information Hans H. Penner--
  • 12. Religion as a mobile army of metaphors: a Davidsonian critique Nancy F. Frankenberry--
  • 13. Manna, Mana everywhere and /_/_/_......Jonathan Z. Smith.
  • (source: Nielsen Book Data)
This landmark interdisciplinary volume presents methodological options for the study of religion in the twenty-first century. Ten distinguished scholars offer radical interpretations of religious belief and language from a variety of perspectives: anthropology of religion, ritual studies, cognitive psychology, semantics, post-analytic philosophy, history of religions, and philosophy of religion. For the first time, a collection of original essays explores the significance of Donald Davidson's 'radical interpretation', Robert Brandom's 'inferentialism', and Richard Rorty's pragmatism for issues in the study of religion. Related topics include cultural variations in belief from Madagascar to China, experimental research from cognitive science, and the semantics of myth, metaphor, mana and manna. Radical Interpretation in Religion will be of interest to both general readers and specialists seeking a deeper understanding of new directions in the study of religion.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
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10. Mysticism and experience : twenty-first-century approaches [2020]

  • Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2020]
Description
Book — xvii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
  • Preface Introduction: Unutterable Experiences of Consciousness Alteration PART I. THE EXPOSURE 1.Manifestations of Shamanic Spirituality: Mongolia 1999, 2002 Eva Jane Neumann Fridman
  • 2. Theoneurology: Bridging Hebrew Bible Prophecy and Clinical Psychedelic Drug Research Rick Strassman, MD PART II. THE SYMBOLIC 3.Materializing the Symbolic in Paranormal Experience Jess Hollenback 4.Words and Images of a Transcendent Inner Mysterion: Mysticism in Contemporary Western Literature and Art Ori Z. Soltes
  • PART III. THE COGNITIVE 5.The Dao Flickering through Words: A Cognitive-Poetic Analysis of Dao-de Jing Sivan Wagshal Te'eni and Reuven Tsur
  • 6. Why Are Religious Experiences Ineffable? The Question of Mystical-Noetic Knowledge Laura E. Weed 7.Toward a Cognitive Psychology of Mystical Experiences Harry T. Hunt PART IV. THE SCIENTIFIC
  • 8. Explanatory Mechanisms of Altered States of Consciousness: A Brief Overview Alex S. Kohav 9.Mathematical Modeling of Cognitive Mechanisms of Meaning and the Spiritually Sublime Leonid I. Perlovsky
  • 10. Transcendent Knowledge-Claims and the Scientific Study of Mystical Experiences Richard H. Jones About the Contributors Index.
  • (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Mysticism: Twenty-First-Century Approaches embarks on an investigation of the concept of mysticism from the standpoint of academic fields, including philosophy, anthropology, religious studies, mysticism studies, literary studies, art criticism, cognitive poetics, cognitive science, psychology, medical research, and even mathematics. Scholars across disciplines observe that, although it has experienced both cyclical approval and disapproval, mysticism seems to be implicated as a key foundation of religion, alon with the highest forms of social, cultural, intellectual, and artistic creations. This book is divided into four sections: The Exposure, The Symbolic, The Cognitive, and The Scientific, covering all fundamental aspects of the phenomenon known as mysticism. Contributors, taking advantage of recent advances in disciplinary approaches to understanding mystical phenomena, address questions of whether progress can be made to systemically enrich, expand, and advance our understanding of mysticism.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
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11. Radical interpretation in religion [electronic resource] [2002]

  • Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Description
Book — xvi, 231 p.
Summary
  • Part I. Pragmatics:
  • 1. Introduction to Part I--
  • 2. Saving belief: on the new materialism in religious studies Terry F. Godlove Jr--
  • 3. Radical interpretation and pragmatism: Davidson, Rorty, and Brandom on truth Jeffrey Stout--
  • 4. Cultural politics and the question of the existence of God Richard Rorty--
  • 5. Religion and naturalism Wayne L. Proudfoot-- Part II. Culture and Cognition:
  • 6. Introduction to Part II--
  • 7. 'The Chinese believe in spirits': belief and believing in the study of religion Catherine M. Bell--
  • 8. On interpreting the world religiously E. Thomas Lawson--
  • 9. Are religious beliefs counter-intuitive? Maurice Bloch-- Part III. Semantics:
  • 10. Introduction to Part III--
  • 11. You don't read a myth for information Hans H. Penner--
  • 12. Religion as a mobile army of metaphors: a Davidsonian critique Nancy F. Frankenberry--
  • 13. Manna, Mana everywhere and /_/_/_......Jonathan Z. Smith.
  • (source: Nielsen Book Data)
This landmark interdisciplinary volume presents methodological options for the study of religion in the twenty-first century. Ten distinguished scholars offer radical interpretations of religious belief and language from a variety of perspectives: anthropology of religion, ritual studies, cognitive psychology, semantics, post-analytic philosophy, history of religions, and philosophy of religion. For the first time, a collection of original essays explores the significance of Donald Davidson's 'radical interpretation', Robert Brandom's 'inferentialism', and Richard Rorty's pragmatism for issues in the study of religion. Related topics include cultural variations in belief from Madagascar to China, experimental research from cognitive science, and the semantics of myth, metaphor, mana and manna. Radical Interpretation in Religion will be of interest to both general readers and specialists seeking a deeper understanding of new directions in the study of religion.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
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12. Radical interpretation in religion [2002]

  • Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Description
Book — xvi, 231 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary
  • Part I. Pragmatics:
  • 1. Introduction to Part I--
  • 2. Saving belief: on the new materialism in religious studies Terry F. Godlove Jr--
  • 3. Radical interpretation and pragmatism: Davidson, Rorty, and Brandom on truth Jeffrey Stout--
  • 4. Cultural politics and the question of the existence of God Richard Rorty--
  • 5. Religion and naturalism Wayne L. Proudfoot-- Part II. Culture and Cognition:
  • 6. Introduction to Part II--
  • 7. 'The Chinese believe in spirits': belief and believing in the study of religion Catherine M. Bell--
  • 8. On interpreting the world religiously E. Thomas Lawson--
  • 9. Are religious beliefs counter-intuitive? Maurice Bloch-- Part III. Semantics:
  • 10. Introduction to Part III--
  • 11. You don't read a myth for information Hans H. Penner--
  • 12. Religion as a mobile army of metaphors: a Davidsonian critique Nancy F. Frankenberry--
  • 13. Manna, Mana everywhere and /_/_/_......Jonathan Z. Smith.
  • (source: Nielsen Book Data)
This landmark interdisciplinary volume presents methodological options for the study of religion in the twenty-first century. Ten distinguished scholars offer radical interpretations of religious belief and language from a variety of perspectives: anthropology of religion, ritual studies, cognitive psychology, semantics, post-analytic philosophy, history of religions, and philosophy of religion. For the first time, a collection of original essays explores the significance of Donald Davidson's 'radical interpretation', Robert Brandom's 'inferentialism', and Richard Rorty's pragmatism for issues in the study of religion. Related topics include cultural variations in belief from Madagascar to China, experimental research from cognitive science, and the semantics of myth, metaphor, mana and manna. Radical Interpretation in Religion will be of interest to both general readers and specialists seeking a deeper understanding of new directions in the study of religion.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
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13. Conversion in the age of pluralism [2009]

  • Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Description
Book — 1 online resource (xiii, 333 pages) : illustrations Digital: data file.
Summary
  • Contributors include: Luigi Berzano, Anthony J. Blasi, Pierluigi Caddeo, Roberto Cipriani, Regis Dericquebourg, Stefano Federici, Kieran Flanagan, Kees de Groot, Eliana Martoglio, Patrick Michel, Roberto Motta, Enzo Pace, William H. Swatos, Jr., Francesco Valerio Tommasi, Sophie-Helene Trigeaud, and Paul-Andre Turcotte.
  • (source: Nielsen Book Data)
The theme of conversion constitutes a privileged point to study the framework linking an individual to the sociocultural contexts in which he or she is included. Changes in personal biographies and sociocultural change are interwoven when we speak of conversion: values, speech, norms, behaviors, beliefs, lifestyles, interests--everything is open to potential debate when an individual "converts." Conversion is especially developed here through a connection with the dynamics of pluralism, which appears to be the most peculiar cultural characteristic of our era: what does it mean to speak of "conversion" in a time in which it seems that the presumption of only one "true" truth no longer exists, while instead many different truths live together, each with its own judgment criteria.
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14. Religious imagination and the body : a feminist analysis [1994]

Description
Book — 184 p.
Summary
In recent years feminist scholarship has increasingly focused on the importance of the body and its representations in virtually every social, cultural, and intellectual context. Many have argued that because women are more closely identified with their bodies, they have access to privileged and different kinds of knowledge than men. In this landmark new book, Paula Cooey offers a different perspective on the significance of the body in the context of religious life and practice. Building on the pathbreaking work of Elaine Scarry in The Body in Pain, Cooey looks at a wide range of evidence, from the Argentine prison narrative of Alicia Partnoy, to the novels of Toni Morrison and the paintings of Frida Kahlo. Drawing on current social theory and critique, cognitive psychology, contemporary fiction and art, and women's accounts of religious experience, Cooey relates the reality of sentience to the social construction of reality. Beginning with an examination of the female body as a metaphor for alternative knowledge, she considers the significance of physical pain and pleasure to the religious imagination, and the relations between sentience, sensuality, and female subjectivity. Cooey succeeds in bringing forward a sophisticated new understanding of the religious importance of the body, at the same time laying the foundations of a feminist theory of religion.
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15. Coping with the gods : wayward readings in Greek theology [2011]

Description
Book — xiii, 593 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Summary
Inspired by a critical reconsideration of current monolithic approaches to the study of Greek religion, this book argues that ancient Greeks displayed a disquieting capacity to validate two (or more) dissonant, if not contradictory, representations of the divine world in a complementary rather than mutually exclusive manner. From this perspective the six chapters explore problems inherent in: order vs. variety/chaos in polytheism, arbitrariness vs. justice in theodicy, the peaceful co-existence of mono- and polytheistic theologies, human traits in divine imagery, divine omnipotence vs. limitation of power, and ruler cult. Based on an intimate knowledge of ancient realia and literary testimonia the book stands out for its extensive application of relevant perceptions drawn from cultural anthropology, theology, cognitive science, psychology, and linguistics.
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16. Religious imagination and the body [electronic resource] : a feminist analysis [1994]

Description
Book — xiii, 184 p.
Summary
Offering a feminist perspective on the significance of the body in the context of religious life and practice, this treatise examines the evidence, ranging from the novels of Toni Morrison to the paintings of Frida Kahlo.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
In recent years feminist scholarship has increasingly focused on the importance of the body and its representations in virtually every social, cultural, and intellectual context. Many have argued that because women are more closely identified with their bodies, they have access to privileged and different kinds of knowledge than men. In this landmark new book, Paula Cooey offers a different perspective on the significance of the body in the context of religious life and practice. Building on the pathbreaking work of Elaine Scarry in The Body in Pain, Cooey looks at a wide range of evidence, from the Argentine prison narrative of Alicia Partnoy, to the novels of Toni Morrison and the paintings of Frida Kahlo. Drawing on current social theory and critique, cognitive psychology, contemporary fiction and art, and women's accounts of religious experience, Cooey relates the reality of sentience to the social construction of reality. Beginning with an examination of the female body as a metaphor for alternative knowledge, she considers the significance of physical pain and pleasure to the religious imagination, and the relations between sentience, sensuality, and female subjectivity. Cooey succeeds in bringing forward a sophisticated new understanding of the religious importance of the body, at the same time laying the foundations of a feminist theory of religion.
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17. Religious imagination and the body : a feminist analysis [1994]

Description
Book — 1 online resource (xiii, 184 pages) Digital: data file.
Summary
  • ONE: Introduction; TWO: The Body and Gender; THREE: The Body as Site for Religious Imagination; FOUR: The Body as Sign for Religious Imagination; FIVE: Site, Sign, and Imagination; SIX: Mapping Religion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Exhibition Catalogues; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.
Offering a feminist perspective on the significance of the body in the context of religious life and practice, this treatise examines the evidence, ranging from the novels of Toni Morrison to the paintings of Frida Kahlo.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
In recent years feminist scholarship has increasingly focused on the importance of the body and its representations in virtually every social, cultural, and intellectual context. Many have argued that because women are more closely identified with their bodies, they have access to privileged and different kinds of knowledge than men. In this landmark new book, Paula Cooey offers a different perspective on the significance of the body in the context of religious life and practice. Building on the pathbreaking work of Elaine Scarry in The Body in Pain, Cooey looks at a wide range of evidence, from the Argentine prison narrative of Alicia Partnoy, to the novels of Toni Morrison and the paintings of Frida Kahlo. Drawing on current social theory and critique, cognitive psychology, contemporary fiction and art, and women's accounts of religious experience, Cooey relates the reality of sentience to the social construction of reality. Beginning with an examination of the female body as a metaphor for alternative knowledge, she considers the significance of physical pain and pleasure to the religious imagination, and the relations between sentience, sensuality, and female subjectivity. Cooey succeeds in bringing forward a sophisticated new understanding of the religious importance of the body, at the same time laying the foundations of a feminist theory of religion.
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18. The innateness of myth : a new interpretation of Joseph Campbell's reception of C.G. Jung [2009]

Description
Book — xii, 224 p. ; 25 cm.
Summary
  • Introduction. Jung's influence on Campbell-- Overview-- Methodological reflection-- What this book aims to achieve--
  • Part 1 - Jung-- 1 The development of Jung's ideas about the concept of the archetype-- Early developments-- "On the nature of the psyche"-- Synchronicity-- 2 The Ideas of Anthony Stevens-- Ideas expressed in the book "Archetype Revisited"-- Steven's take on Jung's ideas about religion-- Conclusion--
  • Part 2 Campbell-- 3 Campbell's Life-- Boyhood and student years-- Development of core ideas-- Professional career-- 4 Phase One and Two of Campbell's Career-- Which books by Jung did Campbell own?-- Phase one (1944-1959)-- Phase two (1959-1968)-- 5 Phase Three of Campbell's Life-- 6 Conclusion-- The model of the three phases: a summary-- Overview and close analysis of my most important arguments-- Campbell as a 'post-Jungian'-- Reflections on the potential benefits of my findings--
  • Appendix I-- Bibliography.
  • (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Joseph Campbell (1904-1988) was one of the most well-known and popular scholars of myth and comparative religion of the twentieth century. His work, however, has never fully received the same amount of scholarly interest and critical reflection that some of his contemporaries have received. In this book, based on extensive research in the Joseph Campbell Archive in Santa Barbara, Ritske Rensma shows that reflecting on C.G. Jung's influence on Campbell greatly furthers our understanding of these ideas, and that once this goal is achieved it becomes obvious that Campbell was a scholar whose ideas are still of significance today. Following Jung's lead, Campbell put great emphasis on the innate structures of the mind, an approach which pre-echoes the current 'evolutionary turn' in fields such as cognitive theory, psychology, psychiatry and neurobiology. This study will therefore not just be of interest to students and scholars interested in psychological approaches to the study of religion as well as Jung and Campbell, but also to those with an interest in recent developments in the above-mentioned fields.
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This is a study of Joseph Campbell (1904-1988), one of the most well-known and popular scholars of myth and comparative religion of the twentieth century. Joseph Campbell (1904-1988) was one of the most well-known and popular scholars of myth and comparative religion of the twentieth century. His work, however, has never fully received the same amount of scholarly interest and critical reflection that some of his contemporaries have received. In this book, based on extensive research in the Joseph Campbell Archive in Santa Barbara, Ritske Rensma shows that reflecting on C.G. Jung's influence on Campbell greatly furthers our understanding of these ideas, and that once this goal is achieved it becomes obvious that Campbell was a scholar whose ideas are still of significance today. Following Jung's lead, Campbell put great emphasis on the innate structures of the mind, an approach which pre-echoes the current 'evolutionary turn' in fields such as cognitive theory, psychology, psychiatry and neurobiology. This study will therefore not just be of interest to students and scholars interested in psychological approaches to the study of religion as well as Jung and Campbell, but also to those with an interest in recent developments in the above-mentioned fields. This groundbreaking new series offers original reflections on theory and method in the study of religions, and demonstrates new approaches to the way religious traditions are studied and presented. Studies published under its auspices look to clarify the role and place of Religious Studies in the academy, but not in a purely theoretical manner.
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19. Where God and science meet : how brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion [2006]

  • Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006.
Description
Book — 3 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Summary
  • v. 1. Evolution, genes, and the religious brain
  • v. 2. The neurology of religious experience
  • v. 3. The psychology of religious experience.
  • Contents of
  • v. 1: The evolutionary psychology of religion / Steven Pinker
  • Sacred emotions and affective neuroscience : gratitude, costly signaling, and the brain / Robert A. Emmons and Patrick McNamara
  • Genetic and environmental influences on the traditional moral values triad--authoritarianism, conservatism, and religiousness--as assessed by quantitative behavior genetics methods / Laura B. Koenig and Thomas J. Bouchard Jr.
  • Religious behaviors, badges, and bans : signaling theory and the evolution of religion / Richard Sosis
  • Nature's medicine : religiosity as an adaptation for health and cooperation / Joseph Bulbulia
  • The cognitive psychology of belief in the supernatural / Jesse M. Bering
  • The ritual healing theory : therapeutic suggestion and the origin of religion / James McClenon
  • Religion is not an adaptation / Lee A. Kirkpatrick
  • The cognitive and evolutionary roots of religion / Scott Atran
  • Amazing grace : religion and the evolution of the human mind / Ilkka Pyysiäinen
  • The significance of the evolution of religious belief and behavior for religious studies and theology / Wesley J. Wildman.
  • Contents of
  • v. 2: The chemistry of religiosity : evidence from patients with Parkinson's disease / Patrick McNamara ... [et al.]
  • Religious and spiritual practices : a neurochemical perspective / Andrew B. Newberg
  • Neuroimaging studies of religious experience : a critical review / Nina P. Azari
  • Religion and the life course : is adolescence and "experience expectant" period for religious transmission? / Candace S. Alcorta
  • Neurotheology : a science of what? / Matthew Ratcliffe
  • Religion as a by-product of evolved psychology : the case of attachment and implications for brain and religion research / Pehr Granquist
  • Religious conversion, spiritual transformation, and the neurocognition of meaning making / Raymond E. Paloutzian, Erica L. Swenson, and Patrick McNamara
  • Religion and the brain : evidence from temporal lobe epilepsy / Steven C. Schachter
  • The frontal lobes and the evolution of cooperation and religion / Patrick McNamara
  • Mind design and the capacity for ritual performance / Carl Seaquist
  • The brain, religion, and baseball : comments on the potential for a neurology of religion and religious experience / Warren S. Brown.
  • Contents of
  • v. 3: The neuropharmacology of religious experience : hallucinogens and the experience of the divine / David E. Nichols and Benjamin R. Chemel
  • The relationship between religion and health / Andrew B. Newberg and Bruce Y. Lee
  • Religion, meaning, and the brain / Crystal L. Park and Patrick McNamara
  • The darker side of religion : risk factors for poorer health and well-being / Gina Magyar-Russell and Kenneth Pargament
  • The common core thesis in the study of mysticism / Ralph W. Hood, Jr.
  • Cross-cultural assessments of shamanism as a biogenetic foundation for religion / Michael Winkelman
  • Schizophrenia, neurology, and religion : what can psychosis teach us about the evolutionary role of religion? / Steven A. Rogers and Raymond F. Paloutzian
  • Between yang and yin and heaven and hell : untangling the complex relationship between religion and intolerance / Ian Hansen and Ara Norenzayan
  • The origins of dreaming / Kelly Bulkeley
  • Chemical input, religious output : entheogens : a pharmatheology sampler / Thomas B. Roberts
  • An illusion of the future : temptations and possibilities / Keith G. Meador.
Spiritual practices, or awakenings, have an impact on the brain, mind and personality. These changes are being scientifically predicted and proven. For example, studies show that people undergoing intense religious feelings experience a functional change in the lobes of their brain similar to epilepsy, which Hippocrates called "the sacred disease." New research is showing that not only does a person's brain activity change in particular areas while that person is experiencing religious epiphany, but such events can be created for some people, even self-professed atheists, by stimulating various parts of the brain. In this far-reaching and novel three-volume set, experts from around the world present evolutionary, neuroscientific and psychological approaches to explaining and exploring religion, including the newest findings and evidence that have spurred the fledgling field of neurotheology. It is not the goal of neurotheology to prove or disprove the existence of God, but to understand the biology of spiritual experiences. Understanding them - as well as how and why these abilities evolved in the brain - could also help us understand how religion contributes to survival of the human race. Eminent contributors to this set help us answer questions including: How does religion better our brain function? What is the difference between a religious person and a terrorist who kills in the name of religion? Is there one site or function in the brain necessary for religious experience?
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20. Psychological perspectives on religion and religiosity [2015]

Description
Book — 316 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
  • 1. Defining Psychology, Defining Religion
  • 2. Exceptional or Natural? Psychological Origins of Religion
  • 3. Social Learning and Identity
  • 4. Explaining Variations in Religiosity
  • 5. Women and Religion
  • 6. Consequences and Correlates of Religiosity
  • 7. Conversion and Convert-Dependent Groups
  • 8. Psychoanalysis and the Psychological Study of Religion
  • 9. Secularization and the Persistence of Religion
  • 10. Concluding Remarks: The New Psychology of Religion.
  • (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Is religion to blame for deadly conflicts? Should religious behaviour be credited more often for acts of charity and altruism? In what ways are religious and 'spiritual' ideas, practices and identities surviving and changing as religion loses its political power in those parts of the world which are experiencing increasing secularization? Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of religion and social identity, Psychological Perspectives on Religion and Religiosity offers a comprehensive and multidisciplinary review of a century of research into the origins and consequences of religious belief systems and religious behaviour. The book employs a unique theoretical framework that combines the 'new' cognitive-evolutionary psychology of religion, examining the origins of religious ideas, with the 'old' psychology of religiosity, which looks at correlates and consequences. It examines a wide range of psychological variables and their relationship with religiosity. It is also provides fresh insights into classical topics in the psychology of religion, such as religious conversion, the relevance of Freud's ideas about religion and religiosity, the meaning of secularization, and the crucial role women play in religion. The book concludes with the author's reflections on the future for the psychology of religion as a field. Psychological Perspectives on Religion and Religiosity will be invaluable for academic researchers in psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, and history worldwide. It will also be of great interest to advanced undergraduate students and graduate students across the social sciences.
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21. The innateness of myth : a new interpretation of Joseph Campbell's reception of C.G. Jung [2009]

  • Rensma, Ritske.
  • New York ; London : Continuum, ©2009. New York ; London : Continuum, γ̐ư2009.
Description
Book — 1 online resource (xii, 224 pages)
Summary
  • Introduction. Jung's influence on Campbell-- Overview-- Methodological reflection-- What this book aims to achieve--
  • Part 1 - Jung-- 1 The development of Jung's ideas about the concept of the archetype-- Early developments-- "On the nature of the psyche"-- Synchronicity-- 2 The Ideas of Anthony Stevens-- Ideas expressed in the book "Archetype Revisited"-- Steven's take on Jung's ideas about religion-- Conclusion--
  • Part 2 Campbell-- 3 Campbell's Life-- Boyhood and student years-- Development of core ideas-- Professional career-- 4 Phase One and Two of Campbell's Career-- Which books by Jung did Campbell own?-- Phase one (1944-1959)-- Phase two (1959-1968)-- 5 Phase Three of Campbell's Life-- 6 Conclusion-- The model of the three phases: a summary-- Overview and close analysis of my most important arguments-- Campbell as a 'post-Jungian'-- Reflections on the potential benefits of my findings--
  • Appendix I-- Bibliography.
  • (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Joseph Campbell (1904-1988) was one of the most well-known and popular scholars of myth and comparative religion of the twentieth century. His work, however, has never fully received the same amount of scholarly interest and critical reflection that some of his contemporaries have received. In this book, based on extensive research in the Joseph Campbell Archive in Santa Barbara, Ritske Rensma shows that reflecting on C.G. Jung's influence on Campbell greatly furthers our understanding of these ideas, and that once this goal is achieved it becomes obvious that Campbell was a scholar whose ideas are still of significance today. Following Jung's lead, Campbell put great emphasis on the innate structures of the mind, an approach which pre-echoes the current 'evolutionary turn' in fields such as cognitive theory, psychology, psychiatry and neurobiology. This study will therefore not just be of interest to students and scholars interested in psychological approaches to the study of religion as well as Jung and Campbell, but also to those with an interest in recent developments in the above-mentioned fields.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
This is a study of Joseph Campbell (1904-1988), one of the most well-known and popular scholars of myth and comparative religion of the twentieth century. Joseph Campbell (1904-1988) was one of the most well-known and popular scholars of myth and comparative religion of the twentieth century. His work, however, has never fully received the same amount of scholarly interest and critical reflection that some of his contemporaries have received. In this book, based on extensive research in the Joseph Campbell Archive in Santa Barbara, Ritske Rensma shows that reflecting on C.G. Jung's influence on Campbell greatly furthers our understanding of these ideas, and that once this goal is achieved it becomes obvious that Campbell was a scholar whose ideas are still of significance today. Following Jung's lead, Campbell put great emphasis on the innate structures of the mind, an approach which pre-echoes the current 'evolutionary turn' in fields such as cognitive theory, psychology, psychiatry and neurobiology. This study will therefore not just be of interest to students and scholars interested in psychological approaches to the study of religion as well as Jung and Campbell, but also to those with an interest in recent developments in the above-mentioned fields. This groundbreaking new series offers original reflections on theory and method in the study of religions, and demonstrates new approaches to the way religious traditions are studied and presented. Studies published under its auspices look to clarify the role and place of Religious Studies in the academy, but not in a purely theoretical manner.
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22. Advances in religion, cognitive science, and experimental philosophy [2016]

  • London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
Description
Book — 221 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
  • 1. Introduction: Cognitive science of religion and its philosophical implications, Helen De Cruz (Department of Philosophy, VU University Amsterdam) and Ryan Nichols (Department of Philosophy, California State University, Fullerton, and Centre for Human Evolution, Cognition, & Culture, University of British Columbia)
  • 2. Is religion or science debunked by the evolution of cognitive faculties? John Wilkins (Honorary Fellow at the School of Historical and Philosophical Sciences, The University of Melbourne)
  • 3. A cognitive psychological account of reasoning about ritual efficacy, Cristine H. Legare (Associate Professor of Psychology, Cognition, Culture, and Development Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Texas) and Rachel Watson-Jones (Postdoctoral fellow, Cognition, Culture, and Development Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Texas)
  • 4. Atheism, inference and intuition, Kelly James Clark (Senior Research Fellow, Kaufman Interfaith Institute, Grand Valley State University)
  • 5. Cognitive science, evil and God, John Teehan (Professor of Religion, Hofstra University)
  • 6. How to witness your own funeral: "The folk" respond to Anthony Flew, Mitch Hodge (Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Amarillo College)
  • 7. How do philosophers evaluate natural theological arguments? An experimental philosophical investigation, Helen De Cruz (Assistant professor, Department of Philosophy, VU University Amsterdam) and Johan De Smedt (Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Philosophy, Ghent University)
  • 8. Remembering past lives, Claire White (Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge, Robert Kelly (California State University, Northridge) and Shaun Nichols (Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona)
  • 9. An ecological theory of gods' minds, Benjamin Grant Purzycki and Rita McNamara (Centre for Human Evolution, Cognition & Culture, University of British Columbia)
  • 10. Rethinking the significance of moral and religious diversity, Jason Marsh (Assistant professor of Philosophy, St Olaf College) and Jon Marsh (St. Louis University) Index.
  • (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Experimental philosophy has blossomed into a variety of philosophical fields including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of language. But there has been very little experimental philosophical research in the domain of philosophy of religion. Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy demonstrates how cognitive science of religion has the methodological and conceptual resources to become a form of experimental philosophy of religion. Addressing a wide variety of empirical claims that are of interest to philosophers and psychologists of religion, a team of psychologists and philosophers apply data from the psychology of religion to important problems in the philosophy of religion including the psychology of religious diversity; the psychology of substance dualism; the problem of evil and the relation between religious belief and empathy; and the cognitive science explaining the formation of intuitions that unwittingly guide philosophers of religion when formulating arguments. Bringing together authors and researchers who have made important contributions to interdisciplinary research on religion in the last decade, Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy provides new ways of approaching core philosophical and psychological problems.
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23. Handbook of the psychology of religion and spirituality [2013]

  • Second Edition. - New York, NY : Guilford Press, [2013]
Description
Book — xvi, 698 pages ; 26 cm
Summary
  • I. Foundations of the Psychology of Religion
  • 1. Recent Progress and Core Issues in the Science of the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Raymond F. Paloutzian and Crystal L. Park
  • 2. Defining Religion and Spirituality, Doug Oman
  • 3. Measurement Assessment and Issues in the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Peter C. Hill
  • 4. Research Methods in the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Ralph W. Hood, Jr., and Jacob A. Belzen
  • 5. Psychodynamic Psychology and Religion, Jozef Corveleyn, Patrick Luyten, and Jessie Dezutter
  • 6. Evolutionary Psychology as a Foundation for the Psychology of Religion, Lee A. Kirkpatrick
  • 7. Building Blocks of Sacralities: A New Basis for Comparison across Cultures and Religions, Ann Taves II. Religion through the Developmental Lens
  • 8. Religious and Spiritual Development in Childhood, Rebekah A. Richert and Pehr Granqvist
  • 9. Religious Development from Adolescence to Middle Adulthood, Michael R. Levenson, Carolyn M. Aldwin, and Heidi Igarashi
  • 10. Old Persons, Old Age, Aging, and Religion, Susan H. McFadden III. Religion and Basic Psychology Subdisciplines
  • 11. The Neuropsychology of Religious Experience, Patrick McNamara and P. Monroe Butler
  • 12. Exploring Religion's Basement: The Cognitive Science of Religion, Justin L. Barrett
  • 13. Gods and Goals: Religion and Purposeful Action, Robert A. Emmons and Sarah A. Schnitker
  • 14. The Religious Shaping of Feeling: Implications of Affect Valuation Theory, Jeanne L. Tsai, Birgit Koopmann-Holm, Masako Miyazaki, and Camaron Ochs
  • 15. The Role of Personality in Understanding Religious and Spiritual Constructs, Ralph L. Piedmont and Teresa A. Wilkins
  • 16. Religiousness, Social Psychology, and Behavior, Michael E. Nielsen, Arthur T. Hatton, and Michael J. Donahue
  • 17. Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology of Religion, Vassilis Saroglou and Adam B. Cohen IV. The Construction and Expression of Religion and Spirituality
  • 18. Religion and Meaning, Crystal L. Park
  • 19. Religious and Spiritual Struggles, Julie J. Exline and Eric D. Rose
  • 20. Conversion, Deconversion, and Spiritual Transformation: A Multilevel Interdisciplinary View, Raymond F. Paloutzian, Sebastian Murken, Heinz Streib, and Sussan RA AYler-Namini
  • 21. Mystical, Spiritual, and Religious Experiences, Ralph W. Hood, Jr., and Zhuo Chen
  • 22. Ritual and Prayer: Forms, Functions, and Relationships, Kevin L. Ladd and Bernard Spilka
  • 23. Religious Fundamentalism, Right-Wing Authoritarianism, and Prejudice: Insights from Meta-Analyses, Implicit Social Cognition, and Social Neuroscience, Wade C. Rowatt, Megan Johnson Shen, Jordan P. LaBouff, and Alfredo Gonzalez
  • 24. Religion and Spirituality and Forgiveness, Everett L. Worthington, Jr., Don E. Davis, Joshua N. Hook, Daryl R. Van Tongeren, Aubrey L. Gartner, David J. Jennings II, Chelsea L. Greer, and Yin Lin
  • 25. How Religion Can Support Self-Control and Moral Behavior, Anne L. Zell and Roy F. Baumeister V. The Psychology of Religion and Applied Areas
  • 26. Religion, Spirituality, and Health, Kevin S. Masters and Stephanie A. Hooker
  • 27. Religion, Spirituality, and Mental Health, Crystal L. Park and Jeanne M. Slattery
  • 28. The Religious Dimension of Coping: Advances in Theory, Research, and Practice, Kenneth I. Pargament, Melissa D. Falb, Gene G. Ano, and Amy B. Wachholtz
  • 29. Mindfulness in Psychology and Religion, Michael R. Levenson and Carolyn M. Aldwin
  • 30. Addressing Religiousness and Spirituality in Psychotherapy: Advancing Evidence-Based Practice, Edward P. Shafranske
  • 31. From Concept to Science: Continuing Steps in Workplace Spirituality Research, Peter C. Hill, Carole L. Jurkiewicz, Robert A. Giacalone, and Louis W. Fry
  • 32. Religion and the Staircase to Terrorism, Fathali M. Moghaddam, Zachary Warren, and Karen Love VI. Conclusion and Future Directions
  • 33. Directions for the Future of the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality: Research Advances in Methodology and Meaning Systems, Crystal L. Park and Raymond F. Paloutzian.
  • (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Widely regarded as the definitive reference, this volume comprehensively examines the psychological processes associated with religion and spirituality. Leading scholars from multiple psychological subdisciplines present developmental, cognitive, social psychological, cultural, and clinical perspectives on this core aspect of human experience. The forms and functions of religious practices and rituals, conversion experiences, and spiritual struggles are explored. Other key topics include religion as a meaning system, religious influences on prosocial and antisocial behavior, and connections to health, coping, and psychotherapy. New to This Edition *Two chapters on cross-cultural issues. *Chapters on spiritual goals, emotional values, and mindfulness. *Reflects significant theoretical and empirical developments in the field. *Many new authors and extensively revised chapters. *Robust index amplifies the volume's usefulness as a reference tool. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title.
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24. Bringing ritual to mind [electronic resource] : psychological foundations of cultural forms [2002]

Description
Book — xii, 236 p. : ill.
Summary
  • 1. Cognitive constraints on religious ritual form: a theory of participants' competence with religious ritual systems--
  • 2. Ritual and memory: frequency and flashbulbs--
  • 3. Two hypotheses concerning religious ritual and emotional stimulation--
  • 4. Assessing the two hypotheses--
  • 5. General profiles of religious ritual systems: the emerging cognitive science of religion.
  • (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Bringing Ritual to Mind explores the cognitive and psychological foundations of religious ritual systems. Participants must recall their rituals well enough to ensure a sense of continuity across performances, and those rituals must motivate them to transmit and re-perform them. Most religious rituals the world over exploit either high performance frequency or extraordinary emotional stimulation (but not both) to enhance their recollection (the availability of literacy has little impact on this). But why do some rituals exploit the first of these variables while others exploit the second? McCauley and Lawson advance the ritual form hypothesis, arguing that participants' cognitive representations of ritual form explain why. Reviewing evidence from cognitive, developmental and social psychology and from cultural anthropology and the history of religions, they utilize dynamical systems tools to explain the recurrent evolutionary trajectories religions exhibit.
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25. Bringing ritual to mind : psychological foundations of cultural forms [2002]

Description
Book — xiii, 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary
  • 1. Cognitive constraints on religious ritual form: a theory of participants' competence with religious ritual systems--
  • 2. Ritual and memory: frequency and flashbulbs--
  • 3. Two hypotheses concerning religious ritual and emotional stimulation--
  • 4. Assessing the two hypotheses--
  • 5. General profiles of religious ritual systems: the emerging cognitive science of religion.
  • (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Bringing Ritual to Mind explores the cognitive and psychological foundations of religious ritual systems. Participants must recall their rituals well enough to ensure a sense of continuity across performances, and those rituals must motivate them to transmit and re-perform them. Most religious rituals the world over exploit either high performance frequency or extraordinary emotional stimulation (but not both) to enhance their recollection (the availability of literacy has little impact on this). But why do some rituals exploit the first of these variables while others exploit the second? McCauley and Lawson advance the ritual form hypothesis, arguing that participants' cognitive representations of ritual form explain why. Reviewing evidence from cognitive, developmental and social psychology and from cultural anthropology and the history of religions, they utilize dynamical systems tools to explain the recurrent evolutionary trajectories religions exhibit.
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26. Bringing ritual to mind : psychological foundations of cultural forms [2002]

Description
Book — 1 online resource (xiii, 236 pages) : illustrations Digital: data file.
Summary
  • Cognitive constraints on religious ritual form: a theory of participants' competence with religious ritual systems
  • Ritual and memory: frequency and flashbulbs
  • Two hypotheses concerning religious ritual and emotional stimulation
  • Assessing the two hypotheses
  • General profiles of religious ritual systems: the emerging cognitive science of religion.
Bringing Ritual to Mind explores the cognitive and psychological foundations of religious ritual systems. Participants must recall their rituals well enough to ensure a sense of continuity across performances, and those rituals must motivate them to transmit and re-perform them. Most religious rituals the world over exploit either high performance frequency or extraordinary emotional stimulation (but not both) to enhance their recollection (the availability of literacy has little impact on this). But why do some rituals exploit the first of these variables while others exploit the second? McCauley and Lawson advance the ritual form hypothesis, arguing that participants' cognitive representations of ritual form explain why. Reviewing evidence from cognitive, developmental and social psychology and from cultural anthropology and the history of religions, they utilize dynamical systems tools to explain the recurrent evolutionary trajectories religions exhibit.
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27. The Roman Mithras cult : a cognitive approach [2017]

  • Panagiotidou, Olympia author.
  • London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
Description
Book — xi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
  • List of Illustrations Preface Introduction
  • 1. The World View of the Mithras Cult
  • 2. The Self in the Cult of Mithras
  • 3. Space and Time in the Mithras Cult
  • 4. The Scene of the Tauroctony as a Symbol System
  • 5. The Communities of Mithraists: From Personal Self to Social Identity Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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This book is the first full cognitive history of an ancient religious practice. In this ground-breaking study on one of the most intriguing and mysterious cults, Olympia Panagiotidou, with contributions from Roger Beck, shows how cognitive historiography can supplement our historical knowledge and deepen our understanding of past cultural phenomena. The cult of the sun god Mithras, which spread widely across the Graeco-Roman world at the same time as other 'mystery cults', offered its devotees certain images and assumptions about reality. Initiation into the mysteries of Mithras and participation in the life of the cult significantly affected and transformed the ways in which the initiated perceived themselves, the world, and their position within it. The cult's major ideas were conveyed mainly through its symbolic complexes. The ancient written testimonies and other records are not adequate to establish a definitive reconstruction of Mithraic theologies and the meaning of its complex symbolic structures. The Roman Mithras Cult identifies the cognitive and psychological processes which would have taken place in the minds and bodies of the Mithraists during their initiation and participation in the mysteries, enabling the perception, apprehension, and integration of the essential images and assumptions of the cult in its worldview system.
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