Being religious : cognitive and evolutionary theories in historical perspective / Mladen Turk.

"What makes us religious? What is religion? This book presents relevant research and theoretical proposals for evolutionary theories of religion and socially and ecologically adaptive theories or religion ... Turk expounds understanding of religion as a complex interplay of various capacities arisin...

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Main Author: Turk, Mladen
Language:English
Published: Eugene, Or. : Pickwick Publications, [2013], ©2013.
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Physical Description:xiv, 111 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Foreword / by Philip Hefner -- Introduction -- Cognitive theories of religion -- Socially and ecologically adaptive theories of religion -- The role of cognitive and evolutionary theories of religion in religious studies and theology. 
520 |a "What makes us religious? What is religion? This book presents relevant research and theoretical proposals for evolutionary theories of religion and socially and ecologically adaptive theories or religion ... Turk expounds understanding of religion as a complex interplay of various capacities arising from and influencing our biological and cultural makeup. Our religious behaviors can influence our relationship towards each other and towards our environment in significant ways. He shows how some aspects of complex religious behaviors can be understood better in light of human cognition and evolutionary biology. At the same time he interprets this knowledge as being preliminary and at times inadequate in its claims of completeness and exhaustiveness because religious behaviors are niched within other religious behaviors and dependent on factors that various mono-causal theoretical approaches cannot fully conceptualize"--Provided by publisher. 
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