Mind and Religion: Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of ReligiosityHarvey Whitehouse, Robert N. McCauley Rowman Altamira, 2005 - 248 oldal Recent cognitive approaches to the study of religion have yielded much understanding by focusing on common psychological processes that all humans share. One leading theory, Harvey WhitehouseOs modes of religiosity theory, demonstrates how two distinct modes of organizing and transmitting religious traditions emerge from different ways of activating universal memory systems. In Mind and Religion, top scholars from biology to religious studies question, test, evaluate and challenge WhitehouseOs sweeping thesis. The result is an up-to-date snapshot of the cognitive science of religion field for classes in psychology, anthropology, or history of religion. |
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A Reductionistic Model of Distinct Modes of Religious Transmission | 3 |
Modes Theory Some Theoretical Considerations | 31 |
Ritual Form and Ritual Frequency From Ethnographic Reports to Experimental Findings | 57 |
Divergent Religion A DualProcess Model of Religious Thought Behavior and Morphology | 69 |
Rethinking Naturalness Modes of Religiosity and Religion in the Round | 85 |
Testing the Modes Theory | 107 |
In the Empirical Mode Evidence Needed for the Modes of Religiosity Theory | 109 |
Memory and Analogical Thinking in HighArousal Rituals | 127 |
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