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Cognitive Evolution and Religion; Cognition and Religious Evolution

Author(s) -

Harvey Whitehouse

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

etnoantropološki problemi / issues in ethnology and anthropology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2334-8801

pISSN - 0353-1589

DOI - 10.21301/eap.v3i3.2

Subject(s) - religiosity , cognition , cognitive science of religion , psychology , evolutionary psychology , epistemology , sociology , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , social psychology , philosophy , neuroscience

This paper presents contemporary cognitive approaches to the evolution of religious beliefs. Arguments are put forward that different types of beliefs, or ‘modes of religiosity’, occur as a result of a number of evolutionary factors (biological, cultural, socio-political etc). At the same time, religions across the world retain a significant level of common and shared elements, also explained in evolutionary terms.

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