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Ancestral Trait
Author_Konrad Talmont-Kaminski
belief formation mechanisms
beliefs
Bounded Rationality
Bounded Rationality Approach
Bounded Rationality Theory
Category=QRA
Category=QRYC
Category=QRYX2
cognitive
cognitive anthropology
Contagion Heuristic
cultural adaptation
dual inheritance theory
Empirical Counter-evidence
Enlightenment View
entities
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
error
Error Management
Error Management Theory
evolution of supernatural beliefs
evolutionary psychology
function
Goal Demotion
Group Level Adaptation
HADD
Human Cognitive Mechanisms
Magical Behaviour
Magical Beliefs
Magical Ideologies
Magical Practices
management
Massive Modularity Hypothesis
Mundane Explanations
Non-religious Ideologies
Potential Counter-evidence
Privatized Religion
pro-social
Pro-social Function
religious cognition
science
supernatural
Supernatural Beliefs
theory
Weak Religious Belief
Product details
- ISBN 9781844656448
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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'Religion as Magical Ideology' examines the relationship between rationality and supernatural beliefs arguing that such beliefs are products of evolution, cognition and culture. The book does not offer a false rapprochement between reason and religion; instead, it explores their interrelationship as a series of complex adaptations between cognitive and cultural processes. Exploring the nature of the tension between religious traditions and reason, 'Religion as Magical Ideology' develops a dual inheritance theory of religion - which combines the cognitive byproduct and prosocial adaptation accounts - and analyses the connection between the function of a belief and the degree of protection it gets from potential counter-evidence. With discussion ranging from individual cognitive mechanisms, general functional considerations, to the limits of evolutionary and cognitive processes, the book offers readers a systematic account of how cognition shapes religious beliefs and practices.
Konrad Talmont-Kaminski is Assistant Professor at the University of Finance and Management in Warsaw and is co-editor of "Regarding Mind, Naturally" and "Beyond Description: Naturalism and Normativity".
