Todd Tremlin

Minds and Gods

The Cognitive Foundations of Religion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Around the world and throughout history, in cultures as diverse as ancient Mesopotamia and modern America, human beings have been compelled by belief in gods and developed complex religions around them. But why? What makes belief in supernatural beings so widespread? And why are the gods of so many different people so similar in nature? This provocative book explains the origins and persistence of religious ideas by looking through the lens of science at the commonstructures and functions of human thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780199739011
• ISBN-10: 0199739013
• Artikelnr.: 29976659

Autorenporträt

Tremlin Todd Assistant Professor in Philosophy & Religion, Central Michigan University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1.: The Prehistoric Roots of the Modern Mind
2.: The Architecture of the Modern Mind
3.: Minds, Other Minds, and the Minds of Gods
4.: Gods and Why They Matter
5.: Gods and Religious Systems
6.: Cognition and Religious Systems
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

...it is good, especially in a world endlessly troubled by religious differences, to have a new theoretical analysis suggesting that there are core religious beliefs that transcend our differences and that stem from universal featues of the human mind. Ann Cale Kruger, Having Faith, Nature,