Magic, Miracles, and Religion
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Magic, Miracles, and Religion

A Scientist's Perspective

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Magic, Miracles, and Religion

A Scientist's Perspective

About this book

Can scientists study religion? Ilkka PyysiSinen says that they can. While the study of religion cannot be reduced to other disciplines, it must not ignore what other disciplines have learned about human thought and behavior. In this collection of essays, PyysiSinen shows how findings from cognitive science can offer new directions to debates in religion. After providing a historical and theoretical overview of the cognitive science of religion, PyysiSinen demonstrates how knowledge of the mind's workings can help deconstruct such concepts as 'god,' 'ideology,' 'culture,' 'magic,' 'miracles,' and 'religion.' For scholars of religion or for scholars of the mind-brain, Magic, Miracles, and Religion provides a helpful overview to this emerging field.

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Table of contents

  1. COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF RELIGION SERIES
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction; or, How I Said Goodbye to an Absent-Minded Study of Religion
  8. 1 - What Is It Like to Be a Believer?
  9. 2 - A Cognitive-Scientific Perspective in the Study of Religion
  10. 3 - Breaking Boundaries
  11. 4 - Take the Buddha, for Example
  12. 5 - Religion: A Unique World, but in What Sense?
  13. 6 - Explaining Miracles
  14. 7 - A New Theory of Magic
  15. 8 - True Fiction: The Philosophy and Psychology of Religious Belief
  16. 9 - Rituals: Why Indeed?
  17. 10 - Singers of Tales
  18. 11 - Holy Book: The Invention of Writing and Religious Cognition
  19. 12 - Religion, Science, and Ideology
  20. 13 - ‘God’ as Ultimate Reality in Religion and in Science
  21. 14 - Religious Experience across Cultures
  22. 15 - Do Cultures Exist?
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index
  25. About the Author