{"product_id":"culture-and-the-cognitive-science-of-religion","title":"Culture and the Cognitive Science of Religion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCulture and the Cognitive Science of Religion\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book to bring together cultural psychology and the cognitive science of religion (CSR). Containing much-needed discussion of how good research should do more than simply follow methodological prescriptions, this thought-provoking and original book\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eoutlines the ways in which CSR can be used to study everyday religious belief without sacrificing psychological science.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCresswell’s pragmatist approach expands CSR in a radically new direction. The author shows how language and culture can be integrated within CSR in order to achieve an alternative ontogenetic and phylogenetic approach to cognition, and argues that a view of cognition that is not based on modularity, but on the dynamic connection between an organism and its milieu, can lead to a view of evolution that makes much more room for the constitutive role of culture in cognition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a provocative attempt to persuade researchers to engage with religious communities more directly\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ebook should be essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students, as well as psychologists interested in the cognitive science of religion, theological anthropology, religious studies and cultural anthropology. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54241361822040,"sku":"9781138219397","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138219397.jpg?v=1769605221","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/culture-and-the-cognitive-science-of-religion","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}