Bücher der Reihe Cognitive Science of Religion

A collection of essays which show how findings from cognitive science can offer directions to debates in religion. It demonstrates how knowledge of the mind's workings can help deconstruct such concepts as god, ideology, culture, magic, miracles, and religion. It is suitable for scholars of religion or for scholars of the mind-brain.

What do evangelicals believe when they believe in the Bible? Despite hundreds of English versions that differ in their texts, evangelicals believe that there is a stable text - the Bible - which is the authoritative word of God.

Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. This work features a range of ethnographers who grapple critically with Harvey Whitehouse's theory of two divergent modes of religiosity.

Presents a theory of magical actions based on an array of findings in the cognitive sciences. This book argues that focusing on the underlying cognitive processes not only explains why magical rituals look the way they do, it also supplies insights into the role of magic in the formation of institutionalised religion.

A demonstration of how religion and religious belief can emerge using computer simulations