Cognitive Science of Religion and Classical Theism: A Synthesis

Cognitive Science and the Naturalness of Religion

Cognitive approaches to religious phenomena have attracted considerable interdisciplinary attention since their emergence a couple of decades ago. Proponents offer explanatory accounts of the content and transmission of religious thought and behavior in terms of underlying cognition. A central claim is that the cross-cultural recurrence and historical persistence of religion is attributable to ...

New Developments in the Cognitive Science of Religion. Hosted by the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion (IACSR)

The International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion (IACSR) seeks to advance the naturalistic study of religion. The IACSR recognizes that the cognitive sciences encompass a wide array of disciplines and methods, including, among others, experimental research in psychology and neuroscience, computational modeling, ethnographic, historical, archaeological, and comparative studies...

Religion in Mind: a Review Article of the Cognitive Science of Religion

The Non-Classical Mind: Cognitive Science and Non-Classical Computing

This paper explores the ideas of non-classical computation (computing where one or more traditional assumptions about what defines computation have been dropped) in the context of cognitive science. A framework that classifies non-classical computing concepts is discussed, and the potential impact of each of these concepts on issues of cognition, mind and affect is analysed.

Introduction: New Frontiers in the Cognitive Science of Religion

The papers in this issue arose from a conference on the Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity that took place at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) in August, 2003.1 This conference brought together scholars from ten nations and six disciplines (psychology, anthropology, religious studies, biology, philosophy, and cognitive science) to explore new developments at the interface...