Is Religion Natural?
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Is Religion Natural?

  1. 219 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Is Religion Natural?

About this book

How natural is religion? Is it a phenomenon written in our genes or brains, naturally developing with the development of the human race? The book
considers the findings of evolutionary psychology from scientific,
philosophical and theological perspectives and critically examines the relation
between empirical, epistemological and theological notions.
Chapters in
the book deal with the naturalness of religion and religious experiences as
based on genetics, biology and social psychology. Other authors examine the
relationship between religion, science and theology with regard to the
naturalness of religion from a more general perspective. The last part of the
book includes views from a Muslim scholar and a historian.

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Publisher
T&T Clark
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780567227270
eBook ISBN
9780567319128
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religion & Science

Table of contents

  1. Preface and Acknowledgments
  2. Part I: Religion – From a Natural Point of View
  3. 1 The Naturalness of Religion and the Unnaturalness of Theology
  4. Justin L. Barrett
  5. 2 Are Religious Experiences Natural? Biological Capacities for Religion
  6. Marjorie Hall Davis and Karl E. Peters
  7. 3 ‘Gene Theology and Folk Biology’: Is Religion a Natural Context for the Opposition of Genetics?
  8. Jussi E. Niemelä
  9. 4 Context Sensitivity and the Folk Psychology of Souls: Why Bering et al. Got the Findings they Did
  10. K. Mitch Hodge
  11. Part II: Religion – Naturally? Philosophical Reflections
  12. 5 Religion – Naturally: Religion, Theology and Science
  13. Ilkka Pyysiäinen
  14. 6 Do We Need to Naturalize Religion?
  15. Lluis Oviedo
  16. 7 What’s Religion For? A Dilemma for the Scientific Investigation of Religion
  17. Dirk Evers
  18. 8 Why Religious Experience is Considered Personal and Dubitable – and What if it Were Not?
  19. Angela Roothaan
  20. 9 The Religion of Science
  21. Alfred Kracher
  22. Part III: The Nature of Religion – Theological Perspectives
  23. 10 The Religion of Nature and the Nature of Religion: Theological Perspectives on the Ambiguities of Understanding Nature and Religion
  24. Christoph Schwöbel
  25. 11 Perspectives on Theomorphism in Islam
  26. Mona Siddiqui
  27. 12 What Could Theologians Possibly Learn From the Cognitive Study of Religion?
  28. Taede A. Smedes
  29. 13 Natural and Revealed Religion in Early Modern British Thought
  30. Roomet Jakapi
  31. Index

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