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Title |
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12. Do You Need Cognitive Neuroscience to Understand Religious Cognition, Experience and Texts? - Studying the Religious Mind |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Patrick McNamara; Boston University School of Medicine; |
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Religious Studies; Anthropology; History |
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cognitive science of religion; anthropology of religion; evolutionary religion; religion and culture; history of religion; ethnography; lived religion; psychology of religion; religious experience; religious behaviour; rites; rituals; worship |
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cognitive science of religion; anthropology; history |
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Description |
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In this chapter I review “Ritual Mourning in Daniel’s Interpretation of Jeremiah’s Prophecy” by Angela Kim Harkins; “Tours of Heaven in Light of the Neuroscientific Study of Religious Experience” by István Czachesz; “(Religious) Language and the Decentering Process: McNamara and De Sublimitate on the Ecstatic Effect of Language” by Christopher T. Holmes. I present an argument that we need neuroscience in order to understand religious cognition as it occurs today and as it was presented in these ancient religious texts. The reason neuroscience is not merely an optional item in the toolbox but absolutely necessary is because religious cognition is characterized by decentering and decentering cannot be understood in the absence of reference to its brain mechanisms. Decentering crucially involves a four-step process whose steps are united not by any inherent logic but rather by the brain processes that produced them in the first place. |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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04-Oct-2022 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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PDF |
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https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/43012 |
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10.1558/equinox.43012 |
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Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Studying the Religious Mind |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |