Cognitive aspects of religious symbolism
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Author
Contributions
- Boyer, Pascal. - Contributor
Publication
1993 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
Language
English
Word Count
61,500 words, Guess
Page Count
246 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1713618M
- ISBN-10052143288X
- OCLC Control Number25787270
- OCLC Control Numbercognitiveaspects0000unse_g6i8
- Library of Congress Control Number92015803
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- Goodreads600262
- LibraryThing7669259
Classifications
- DDC291/.01
- LCCBL85 .C63 1993
Description
How are religious ideas represented, acquired and transmitted? Confronted with religious practices, anthropologists have typically been content with sociological generalisations, informed by vague, intuitive models of cognitive processes. Yet modern cognitive theories promise a fresh understanding of how religious ideas are learnt; and if the same cognitive processes can be shown to underlie all reiigious ideologies, then the comparative study of religions will be placed on a wholly new footing. The present book is a contribution to this ambitious programme. In closely focused essays, a group of anthropologists debate the particular nature of religious concepts and categories, and begin to specify the cognitive constraints on cultural acquisition and transmission.
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