Cognitive Science and the Study of Religion

Authors

  • Marianna Shakhnovich Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет Автор

Keywords:

cognitive science, theory of evolution, naturalism, religion, ritual, counterintuitive representations, supernatural beings

Abstract

The paper discusses main aspects of modern cognitive science of religion. It shows that researchers, working within the cognitive frame based on naturalism and the theory of evolution, treat religion as a special form of cognitive activity and correlate the genesis of religion with the origin of consciousness and some special functions of its earliest forms.

Published

2013-05-15

Issue

Vol. 31 No. 3 (2013)

Section

Articles