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Bulletin for the study of religion feed- Society for Pentecostal Studies , Tulsa, OK, 16-18 March 2023
- AAAL, Portland, OR, 18-21 March 2023
- JCA Book Review by Barbara Hausmair: Archaeologies of Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism, and Repression: Dark Modernities edited by James Symonds and Pavel Vařeka
- JCA Book Reviews: The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City by Carolyn L. White
- JCA Book Reviews: Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences. By Adrian Currie
- JCA Book Reviews: Networked Remembrance: Excavating Buried Memories in the Railways Beneath London and Berlin. By Samuel Merrill
- JCA Book Reviews: Reluctant Landscapes: Historical Anthropologies of Political Experience in Siin, Senegal. By François Richard
- JCA Book Reviews: Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene. Edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero and Robert. S. Emmett
- Lewis, A. David and Martin Lund, eds. Muslim Superheroes: Comics, Islam, and Representation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 256. $24.93 (paperback). by Aaron Ricker
- Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism. By Emily Ogden. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 268. $27.50 (paperback), $82.50 (hardcover). by Charles McCrary
Tag Archives: cognitive science of religion
Theory & Religion Series: Ann Taves’ Religious Experience Reconsidered in the study of atheism
by Thomas J. Coleman III * This post is part of the Theory & Religion Series, where contributors are asked to discuss a current project they are working on, or a book or essay by a particular theorist that they have found … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Theory, Theory & Religion Series, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Agency Detection Device, Ann Taves, atheisms, Christopher F. Silver, cognitive science of religion, Mircea Eliade, theory of mind, Thomas J. Coleman III, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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A Shared, Yet Strangely Comforting Delusion: Cognizing Minds, Theorizing Exegesis, and Scholarship as Readerly Constructed Intentionality
By Philip L. Tite I have recently been working through Hugo Lundhaug’s wonderful book, Images of Rebirth: Cognitive Poetics and Transformational Soteriology in the Gospel of Philip and the Exegesis on the Soul (NHMS, 73; Leiden: Brill, 2010). In this … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Philip L. Tite, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged author-function, authorial intention, Bertrand Russell, blending theory, Catherine Caufield, Christianity, cognitive science of religion, cognitive studies, exegesis, Genealogies of Religion, George Lakoff, Gilles Fauconnier, Hermeneutics, Hugo Lundhaug, ICMs, idealized cognitive models, Interpretation, interpretative communities, intertextuality, J.Z. Smith, Jonathan Z. Smith, Julia Kristeva, literary analysis, Margaret Freeman, Mark Turner, Michel Foucault, Nag Hammadi, Paul Ricoeur, Randi Warne, Raymond Gibbs, Reader Response Theory, reception history, Religion, religious studies, scholarship, Stanley Fish, understanding vs. explanation
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NAASR Notes: Robert N. McCauley
by Robert N. McCauley NAASR Notes is a new feature with the Bulletin where we invite members of the North American Association for the Study of Religion to describe books they are reading and/or research and writing projects that will … Continue reading
Posted in NAASR Notes, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged cognitive neuroscience, Cognitive Science, cognitive science of religion, CSR, cultural anthropology, E. Thomas Lawson, ecumenical naturalism, EN, evolutionary psychology, explanatory pluralism, George Graham, Gods in Disorder, John Templeton Foundation, naturalism, North American Association for the Study of Religion, Robert N. McCauley, theory of mind, Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not
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NAASR Notes: Luther Martin, Levyna Interview
NAASR Notes is a new feature with the Bulletin where we invite members of the North American Association for the Study of Religion to describe books they are reading and/or research and writing projects that will be of interests to … Continue reading
Religion as a cognitively natural universal: “religion” and “science” aren’t that interesting
by Thomas J. Coleman III Millions of people in the world today, just as they have in the past, typically believe in something that is, or can be, considered supernatural. From an emic perspective, gods, ghosts, devils, demons and alluring … Continue reading