Cognitive science of religion
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Cognitive science of religion is the study of religious thought and behavior from the perspective of the cognitive and evolutionary sciences. The field employs methods and theories from a very broad range of disciplines, including: cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, cognitive anthropology, artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, neurobiology, zoology, and ethology. Scholars in this field seek to explain how human minds acquire, generate, and transmit religious memes by means of ordinary cognitive capacities.
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See also
- Psychology of religion
- International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion (IACSR)
- Issues in Science and Religion
- Evolutionary epistemology
- Evolutionary psychology
- Evolutionary psychology of religion
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