Rethinking Religion
Connecting Cognition and Culture
- Authors:
- E. Thomas Lawson, Western Michigan University
- Robert N. McCauley, Emory University, Atlanta
- Date Published: January 1993
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521438063
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This book is an ambitious attempt to develop a cognitive approach to religion. Focusing particularly on ritual action, it borrows analytical methods from linguistics and other cognitive sciences. The authors, a philosopher of science and a scholar of comparative religion, provide a lucid critical review of established approaches to religion, and make a strong plea for the combination of interpretation and explanation. Often represented as competitive approaches, they are rather, complementary, equally vital to the study of symbolic systems.
Read more- An explanation of religious systems alongside substantive theory of religious ritual: an original
- Cuts across disciplines including anthropology, cognitive psychology and philosophy as well as religious studies
- Well drawn and creative analysis and assessment
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'Lawson and McCauley have done the psychology of religion a service by opening new theoretical and research vistas. Their work merits close study because Rethinking Religion offers a truly creative and different kind of contribution to the field.' Bernard Spika, Contemporary Psychology
See more reviews'… a very important book that marks a turning point in the way anthropologists think about religious ideas and practices.' Pascal Boyer, American Anthropologist
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- Date Published: January 1993
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521438063
- length: 208 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 153 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.345kg
- contains: 19 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
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