The Minds of Gods: New Horizons in the Naturalistic Study of Religion
Benjamin Grant Purzycki · Theiss Bendixen
Feb 2023 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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288
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About this ebook
Why are humans obsessed with divine minds? What do gods know and what do they care about? What happens to us and our relationships when gods are involved?
Drawing from neuroscience, evolutionary, cultural, and applied anthropology, social psychology, religious studies, philosophy, technology, and cognitive and political sciences, The Minds of Gods probes these questions from a multitude of naturalistic perspectives. Each chapter offers brief intellectual histories of their topics, summarizes current cutting-edge questions in the field, and points to areas in need of attention from future researchers. Through an innovative theoretical framework that combines evolutionary and cognitive approaches to religion, this book brings together otherwise disparate literatures to focus on a topic that has comprised a lasting, central obsession of our species.
Drawing from neuroscience, evolutionary, cultural, and applied anthropology, social psychology, religious studies, philosophy, technology, and cognitive and political sciences, The Minds of Gods probes these questions from a multitude of naturalistic perspectives. Each chapter offers brief intellectual histories of their topics, summarizes current cutting-edge questions in the field, and points to areas in need of attention from future researchers. Through an innovative theoretical framework that combines evolutionary and cognitive approaches to religion, this book brings together otherwise disparate literatures to focus on a topic that has comprised a lasting, central obsession of our species.
About the author
Benjamin Grant Purzycki is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Theiss Bendixen is a Doctoral Candidate at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Theiss Bendixen is a Doctoral Candidate at Aarhus University, Denmark.
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